Bug 497493 (CVE-2009-0662)

Summary: CVE-2009-0662 plone: authentication flaw in login form
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: cluster-maint, jonathansteffan, rmccabe
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URL: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-0662
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Description Tomas Hoger 2009-04-24 09:37:49 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-0662 to the following vulnerability:

Quoting upstream security advisory:

  Karen Chan of Isotoma Limited found a bug in the login form
  handling of Plone 3.x. An already authenticated user could
  exploit this error and assume the identity of another user.

http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/cve-2009-0662

Affected version (from upstream advisory):
All Plone 3.x releases are affected.
Plone 2.5 and earlier releases are not affected.
Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2009-04-24 09:50:53 UTC 
Created attachment 341134 [details]
Upstream patch
Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2009-04-24 09:51:39 UTC 
Plone currently only seem to be shipped in EPEL5, no other Fedora version has plone at the moment.