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Plone vulnerable to privilege escalation in WebDAV

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 29, 2024

Package

pip Plone (pip)

Affected versions

>= 3.3, < 4.3.10
>= 5.0, < 5.0.5

Patched versions

4.3.10
5.0.5

Description

Plone 4.0 through 5.1a1 does not have security declarations for Dexterity content-related WebDAV requests, which allows remote attackers to gain webdav access via unspecified vectors.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 24, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Apr 29, 2024
Last updated Apr 29, 2024

Severity

High
7.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2016-4041

GHSA ID

GHSA-qqgj-22gr-73vx

Source code

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