Bug 874703 (CVE-2012-5494)

Summary: CVE-2012-5494 conga (Plone): Reflexive XSS
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-08 17:06:36 UTC
A non-persistent / reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the way Plone, a user friendly and powerful content management system, sanitized inputs passed to certain utility functions. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted URL that, when processed would lead to arbitrary HTML or web script execution.

References:
[1] http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/10
[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 python_scripts.py {u,}translate change from upstream HotFix is relevant to this issue.

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-11-13 15:55:30 UTC
The CVE identifier of CVE-2012-5494 has been assigned to this issue:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1

Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2014-06-26 21:28:39 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 not affect plone as provided with the conga package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of luci (as provided by conga) as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.