EMC Documentum Applicationxtender Workflow Manager up to 5.40 Agent Service aws_tmxn.exe path traversal

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in EMC Documentum Applicationxtender Workflow Manager up to 5.40. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file aws_tmxn.exe of the component Agent Service. Performing a manipulation results in path traversal. This vulnerability was named CVE-2008-3685. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in EMC Documentum Applicationxtender Workflow Manager up to 5.40 (Content Management System). It has been classified as very critical. This affects an unknown code of the file aws_tmxn.exe of the component Agent Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Directory traversal vulnerability in aws_tmxn.exe in the Admin Agent service in the server in EMC Documentum ApplicationXtender Workflow, possibly 5.40 SP1 and earlier, allows remote attackers to upload arbitrary files, and execute arbitrary code, via directory traversal sequences in requests to TCP port 2606.

The weakness was presented 10/22/2009 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at zerodayinitiative.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-3685 since 08/14/2008. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/16/2017). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Secunia (SA37070†). See VDB-50522 for similar entry. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Content Management System

Vendor

• EMC

Name

• Documentum Applicationxtender Workflow Manager

Version

• 5.0
• 5.1
• 5.2
• 5.3
• 5.4
• 5.5
• 5.6
• 5.7
• 5.8
• 5.9
• 5.10
• 5.11
• 5.12
• 5.13
• 5.14
• 5.15
• 5.16
• 5.17
• 5.18
• 5.19
• 5.20
• 5.21
• 5.22
• 5.23
• 5.24
• 5.25
• 5.26
• 5.27
• 5.28
• 5.29
• 5.30
• 5.31
• 5.32
• 5.33
• 5.34
• 5.35
• 5.36
• 5.37
• 5.38
• 5.39
• 5.40

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.dellemc.com/

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