Privilege Escalation Affecting plone package, versions [0,5.2.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.37% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PLONE-543308
  • published 26 Jan 2020
  • disclosed 26 Jan 2020
  • credit Alessandro Pisa

How to fix?

Upgrade Plone to version 5.2.2 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 Privilege Escalation. Allows users to PUT (overwrite) some content without needing write permission.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

9.8 critical