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PYSEC-2014-52

Quick fix

PYSEC-2014-52 — plone: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'plone>=4.1.1'

Details

traverser.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 attackers with administrator privileges to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and resource consumption) via unspecified vectors related to "retrieving information for certain resources."

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Affected packages

PyPI/plone

Introduced in: 2.1Fixed in: 4.1.1

Fixpip install --upgrade 'plone>=4.1.1'

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=978449[REPORT]
http://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20130618[WEB]
http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20130618-announcement[ADVISORY]
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/261[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w3pw-qxjj-6prr[ADVISORY]