Elevation of privileges vulnerability

Description

By leveraging the vulnerability, lower-privileged users of Content Manager can manipulate Content Manager clients to elevate privileges and perform unauthorized operations.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.38% · top 68% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.5.

Weakness

• CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-269 and its CVEs

Affected products

• OpenText · Secure Content Manager

  • affected 10.0 – < <=23.4

What to do

Solution: Apply the following patch builds in your data center. Secure Content Manager 23.4 Patch 1: PH_215013 - Content Manager 23.4 Patch 1 Build 111 https://kmviewer.saas.microfocus.com/#/1566945 Secure Content Manager 23.3 Patch 1: PH_215044 - Content Manager 23.3 Patch 1 Build 434 https://kmviewer.saas.microfocus.com/#/1567049 Secure Content Manager 10.1 Patch 5: PH_215040 - Content Manager 10.1 Patch 5 Release Build 1054 Secure Content Manager 10.0 Patch 6: PH_215038 - Content Manager 10.0 Patch 6 Build 1402

References (1)

• https://portal.microfocus.com/s/article/KM000027861 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2024-1973](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2024-1973.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2024-1973)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 13:35 UTC.