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high 8.1

CVE-2013-4197 json

Plone Improper Access Control Vulnerability

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-jjvw-3h9j-p7jf , PYSEC-2014-61 , EUVD-2014-0079

cvss
8.1
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

member_portrait.py in Plone 2.1 through 4.1, 4.2.x through 4.2.5, and 4.3.x through 4.3.1 allows remote authenticated users to modify or delete portraits of other users via unspecified vectors.

Patch / fix

  • pypi plone 4.1.1, 4.2.6, 4.3.2

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-4197 updated cvss 4.0

plone: Authenticated users able to modify / delete portraits of other users (member_portrait.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 5.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control

References

Sources

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