Bug 978449 (CVE-2013-4188)

Summary:	CVE-2013-4188 plone: DoS (infinite loop) by administrator privilege users when retrieving information for certain resources (traverser.py)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	jonathansteffan, security-response-team
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Bug Depends On:	991015
Bug Blocks:	973222

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-06-26 16:18:05 UTC

A denial of service flaw was found in the way Plone, a user friendly and powerful content management system, performed particular resource related information retrieval in certain cases (request interaction with internal traversal machinery). A remote attacker, having administrator privilege to certain subset of Plone action screens / functionality, could use this flaw to cause uncontrolled resource consumption (infinite loop) by issuing a specially-crafted request.

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-07-31 16:11:55 UTC

References:
  http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20130611-announcement

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-08-01 09:09:06 UTC

The CVE identifier of CVE-2013-4188 has been assigned to this issue:
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/01/2

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-08-01 12:04:05 UTC

Created plone tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-5 [bug 991015]