plone/plone.app.contenttypes · Security
Plone Unauthenticated Write Vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-w6g9-xccc-347h
- CVE ID
- CVE-2020-7941
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 9.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v4
- 9.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
A privilege escalation issue in plone.app.contenttypes in Plone 4.3 through 5.2.1 allows users to PUT (overwrite) some content without needing write permission.
CWEs
- CWE-269 · Improper Privilege Management
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7941 ↗
- https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121 ↗
- https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121/privilege-escalation-for-overwriting-content ↗
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/22/1 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/24/1 ↗
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.contenttypes/blob/master/CHANGES.rst?plain=1#L372-L374 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2020-90.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w6g9-xccc-347h ↗