CVE-2025-11165
Received
Received - Intake
Sandbox Escape in dotCMS Velocity Engine Enables Remote Code Execution
Publication date: 2026-02-24
Last updated on: 2026-03-03
Assigner: dotCMS LLC
Description
Description
A sandbox escape vulnerability exists in dotCMS’s Velocity scripting engine (VTools) that allows authenticated users with scripting privileges to bypass class and package restrictions enforced by SecureUberspectorImpl.
By dynamically modifying the Velocity engine’s runtime configuration and reinitializing its Uberspect, a malicious actor can remove the introspector.restrict.classes and introspector.restrict.packages protections.
Once these restrictions are cleared, the attacker can access arbitrary Java classes, including java.lang.Runtime, and execute arbitrary system commands under the privileges of the application process (e.g. dotCMS or Tomcat user).
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| dotcms | dotcms | to 24.12.27 (exc) |
| dotcms | dotcms | From 25.01.07 (inc) to 25.07.10 (exc) |
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Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-89 | The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Without sufficient removal or quoting of SQL syntax in user-controllable inputs, the generated SQL query can cause those inputs to be interpreted as SQL instead of ordinary user data. |
