Bug 1798200 (CVE-2020-7938) - CVE-2020-7938 plone: privilege escalation in plone.restapi
Summary: CVE-2020-7938 plone: privilege escalation in plone.restapi
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2020-7938
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1798208
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-02-04 19:24 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2020-07-16 07:10 UTC (History)
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A flaw was found in Plone in versions 5.2.0 through 5.2.1. Users with a certain privilege level can escalate their privileges up to the highest privilege level when the site is using plone.restapi. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
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Last Closed: 2020-03-13 16:31:42 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-02-04 19:24:53 UTC 
plone.restapi in Plone 5.2.0 through 5.2.1 allows users with a certain privilege level to escalate their privileges up to the highest level.

References:
https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121/privilege-escalation-when-plone-restapi-is-installed
https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121
Comment 1 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-03-13 16:31:42 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-7938
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