Bug 1798200 (CVE-2020-7938)

Summary:	CVE-2020-7938 plone: privilege escalation in plone.restapi
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	cluster-maint, rmccabe
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in Plone in versions 5.2.0 through 5.2.1. Users with a certain privilege level can escalate their privileges up to the highest privilege level when the site is using plone.restapi. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Blocks:	1798208

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-02-04 19:24:53 UTC

plone.restapi in Plone 5.2.0 through 5.2.1 allows users with a certain privilege level to escalate their privileges up to the highest level.

References:
https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121/privilege-escalation-when-plone-restapi-is-installed
https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121

Comment 1 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-03-13 16:31:42 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-7938