Bug 711496 (CVE-2011-1950)

Summary:	CVE-2011-1950 plone: Privilege escalation via plone.app.users (Plone v4.0 and v4.1 specific)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jonathansteffan
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-07 16:21:50 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-1950 to
the following vulnerability:

plone.app.users in Plone 4.0 and 4.1 allows remote authenticated users
to modify the properties of arbitrary accounts via unspecified
vectors, as exploited in the wild in June 2011.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1950
[2] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/518155/100/0/threaded 
[3] http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/CVE-2011-1950
[4] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48005
[5] http://secunia.com/advisories/44775
[6] http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/67695

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-07 16:22:43 UTC

This issue did NOT affect the version of the plone package, as present within
EPEL-5 repository.

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-10-03 05:55:35 UTC

Plone is embedded in the conga package shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Cluster Suite EL4

Statement:

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of conga as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Cluster Suite EL4