CVE-2025-11165

critical · 9.4

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).

9.4

CVSS

0.3%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

23rd

EPSS percentile

2026-02-24

Published

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Weaknesses

CWE-89

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
dotcms	dotcms	< 24.12.27
dotcms	dotcms	>= 25.01.07, < 25.07.10

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References

https://dev.dotcms.com/docs/known-security-issues?issueNumber=SI-74

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2025-11165