Bug 631772 (CVE-2010-3198) - CVE-2010-3198 Zope: Zope child threads termination due unhandled exceptions in PluggableAuthService (PAS)
Summary: CVE-2010-3198 Zope: Zope child threads termination due unhandled exceptions i...
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2010-3198
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 772292
Blocks: 711503
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-09-08 11:13 UTC by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified: 2021-03-26 15:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-08-01 12:57:22 UTC
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-09-08 11:13:47 UTC
Zope application server framework improperly handled certain exceptions
in the code of PluggableAuthService (PAS). A remote, unauthenticated
user could request / access a private page, resulting in unhandled
exception to occur and Zope thread termination. Repetition of the
attack scenario could allow an attacker to terminate all Zope child
treads, leading to denial of service.

References:
  [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336317
  [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/627988
  [3] http://secunia.com/advisories/41267/
  [4] http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.12/zope-2.10.12-released
  [5] http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.11.7/zope-2.10.12-released

Upstream changesets:
a, against v2.10 branch:
   [6] http://svn.zope.org/Zope/branches/2.10/?rev=116087&view=rev

b, against v2.11 branch:
   [7] http://svn.zope.org/Zope/branches/2.11/?rev=116088&view=rev

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-09-08 11:15:00 UTC
Public proof of concept (from [2]):
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The easiest way to trigger this behaviour, is buildout.

Create this buildout.cfg:

[buildout]
extends=http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/buildout/plonetest/plone-3.3.5.cfg

Get yourself a copy of bootstrap.py and run buildout.

* Start Zope
* Create a new Plone site
* Add a new page, make it private.
* Log out
* As anonymous, manually craft the following URL: http://yoursite/plone/new_page?came_from:list=123

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-09-08 11:16:10 UTC
This issue affects the version of the zope package, as present within
EPEL-5 repository.

Please fix.

Comment 12 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-01-06 17:28:40 UTC
Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of conga as shipped with Red Hat Cluster Suite for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as they use own internal mechanism to verify if user requesting particular page is authenticated. Plone private pages permissions configuration mechanism is not used in conga.

Comment 13 Jan Lieskovsky 2012-01-06 17:29:51 UTC
Created zope tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: epel-5 [bug 772292]


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