Bug 711496 – CVE-2011-1950 plone: Privilege escalation via plone.app.users (Plone v4.0 and v4.1 specific)

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Bug 711496 - (CVE-2011-1950) CVE-2011-1950 plone: Privilege escalation via plone.app.users (Plone v4.0 and v4.1 specific)

Summary:	CVE-2011-1950 plone: Privilege escalation via plone.app.users (Plone v4.0 and...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2011-1950

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Keywords:	Security

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Blocks:	711503
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Reported:	2011-06-07 12:21 EDT by Jan Lieskovsky
Modified:	2011-10-04 02:59 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2011-10-03 01:55:35 EDT
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-07 12:21:50 EDT

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2011-1950 to
the following vulnerability:

plone.app.users in Plone 4.0 and 4.1 allows remote authenticated users
to modify the properties of arbitrary accounts via unspecified
vectors, as exploited in the wild in June 2011.

References:
[1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-1950
[2] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/518155/100/0/threaded 
[3] http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/CVE-2011-1950
[4] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48005
[5] http://secunia.com/advisories/44775
[6] http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/67695

Comment 1 Jan Lieskovsky 2011-06-07 12:22:43 EDT

This issue did NOT affect the version of the plone package, as present within
EPEL-5 repository.

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-10-03 01:55:35 EDT

Plone is embedded in the conga package shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Cluster Suite EL4

Statement:

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of conga as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Cluster Suite EL4

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