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medium 4.9

CVE-2013-4189 json

Plone Privilege escalation due improper authorization

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-pwpq-632g-h49g , PYSEC-2014-53 , EUVD-2014-0071

cvss
4.9
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in (1) dataitems.py, (2) get.py, and (3) traverseName.py in Plone 2.1 through 4.1, 4.2.x through 4.2.5, and 4.3.x through 4.3.1 allow remote authenticated users with administrator access to a subtree to access nodes above the subtree via unknown vectors.

Patch / fix

  • pypi plone 4.1.1, 4.2.6, 4.3.2

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red hat product security vex CVE-2013-4189 updated cvss 6.5

plone: Privilege escalation due improper authorization (dataitems.py, get.py, traverseName.py)

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi plone
>=2.1, <=4.1
>=4.2, <4.2.6
>=4.3, <4.3.2
>=2.1, <4.1.1
4.2.6
4.3.2
4.1.1

References

Sources

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