Bug 874649 (CVE-2012-5500)

Summary:	CVE-2012-5500 conga (Plone): Anonymous users can batch change titles of content items
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	cluster-maint, jonathansteffan, jpokorny, jrusnack, rmccabe, rsteiger
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	It was discovered that Plone, included as a part of luci, allowed a remote anonymous user to change titles of content items due to improper permissions checks.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2014-11-07 06:05:51 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	956861
Bug Blocks:	874222

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-08 15:25:01 UTC

A security flaw was found in the way Plone, a user friendly and powerful content management system, performed permissions checks for change titles of content items action. A remote attacker (anonymous user) could submit a specially-crafted HTTP POST request that, when processed, would allow them in an unauthorized way to change titles of content items.

References:
[1] http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/16
[2] http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/

Relevant upstream HotFixes:
[3] http://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106

From the OSS post:
[4] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/07/4

the renameObjectsByPaths.py change from upstream HotFix is relevant to this issue.

Comment 7 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-13 15:48:20 UTC

The CVE identifier of CVE-2012-5500 has been assigned to this issue:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1

Comment 12 Vincent Danen 2014-06-26 21:40:27 UTC

This issue may affect the version of plone as shipped with EPEL5, however the latest version there is 3.1.6 (and the latest 3.x release is 3.3.5, which was released a year prior to this flaw being discovered).  Given the age of the EPEL5 package and its lack of support, we do not recommend anyone use it.

This issue does affect plone as provided with the conga package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Comment 13 Martin Prpič 2014-09-09 09:40:08 UTC

IssueDescription:

It was discovered that Plone, included as a part of luci, allowed a remote anonymous user to change titles of content items due to improper permissions checks.

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2014-09-16 05:30:21 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1194 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1194.html