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low 3.1

CVE-2013-4199 json

Plone Denial of Service vulnerability via decompressing large zip archives

published 2014-03-11 12 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-xfjq-9rxq-ph6m , PYSEC-2014-63 , EUVD-2014-0081

cvss
3.1
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

(1) cb_decode.py and (2) linkintegrity.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 to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a large zip archive, which is expanded (decompressed).

Patch / fix

  • pypi plone 4.1.1, 4.2.6, 4.3.2

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-2013-4199 updated cvss 4.0

plone: DoS by decompressing large zip archives (cb_decode.py, linkintegrity.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

1.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.