Privilege Escalation Affecting plone.restapi package, versions [,6.2.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.25% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PLONERESTAPI-543317
  • published 27 Jan 2020
  • disclosed 26 Jan 2020
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade plone.restapi to version 6.2.1 or higher.

Overview

plone.restapi is a RESTful hypermedia API for Plone.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. plone.restapi allows users with a certain privilege level to escalate their privileges up to the highest level.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

8.8 high