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medium 4.9

CVE-2013-7061 json

Plone Privilege escalation through exposed underlying API

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-4vr8-r7qr-fpvq , PYSEC-2014-66 , PYSEC-2014-68 , EUVD-2014-0084

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 70%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Products/CMFPlone/CatalogTool.py in Plone 3.3 through 4.3.2 allows remote administrators to bypass restrictions and obtain sensitive information via an unspecified search API.

Patch / fix

  • pypi plone 4.3.3
  • pypi products-cmfplone 4.3.3

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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-2013-7061 updated cvss 2.6

plone: privilege escalation through exposed underlying API

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 conga
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

1.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 70% 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:P/I:P/A:N
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
>=3.3b1, <4.3.3
>=3.3, <4.3.3
4.3.3
pypi products-cmfplone
>=3.3, <4.3.3
4.3.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
  • CWE-284 Improper Access Control

References

Sources

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