Access Restriction Bypass Affecting plone package, versions [4.3,5.2.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.33% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PLONE-1296319
  • published 23 May 2021
  • disclosed 23 May 2021
  • credit Calum Hutton

How to fix?

Upgrade Plone to version 5.2.5 or higher.

Overview

Plone is an user friendly and extensible Content Management System running on top of Python and Zope.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. It allows remote authenticated managers to perform disk I/O via crafted keyword arguments to the ReStructuredText transform in a Python script.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.9 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

9.9 critical