PT-2014-2325 · Plone+1 · Plone+1

Richard Mitchell · Published 2014-09-16 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2012-5498

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

8.7

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Plone versions prior to 4.2.3 Plone version 4.3 before beta 1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass caching and cause a denial of service via a crafted request to a collection. This is related to the queryCatalog.py script.

Recommendations For Plone versions prior to 4.2.3, update to version 4.2.3 or later. For Plone version 4.3 before beta 1, update to beta 1 or later.

Fix

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5498

GHSA-97RJ-P794-WQ6M

PYSEC-2014-40

RHSA-2014:1194

RHSA-2014_1194

Affected Products

Plone

Red Hat

References · 25

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5498 · Security Note
• https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-97rj-p794-wq6m · Vendor Advisory
• https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/14 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1194.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2014-40 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2014-40.yaml · Note
• https://github.com/plone/Plone · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5500 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5498 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/09/7 · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20131103191705/https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/14 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5499 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5498 · Note