CVE-2016-3972

PoC —

CVSS 3.0

2.7 low

EPSS

1%p72

Published

Apr 18, 2016 (Apr 18, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the dotTailLogServlet in dotCMS before 3.5.1 allows remote authenticated administrators to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the fileName parameter.

Vendors: dotcms
Products: dotcms
Weakness: CWE-22
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.5%)

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