Plone, an open source content management system, was found to be affected by a vulnerability, where exposed search API could allow privileged section administrators to search for content outside the area they administer. A subclass of CatalogTool from CMF wraps a subset of the search methods to add permission checks. The unwrapped methods, while not part of the official API, could be used from restricted python to access information without authorisation. Source: https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/b08a45bc12b1bd42411f1130a487a7a242349ea0/Products/CMFPlone/CatalogTool.py References: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/467 https://plone.org/security/20131210/catalogue-exposure
Created plone tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-5 [bug 1040380]
CVE Request: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q4/467
Statement: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.