Plone upstream has published a pre-announcement about a security flaw, present in Zope v2.12.x and Zope v2.13.x, which could allow execution of arbitrary code by anonymous users. An authenticated attacker could provide a specially-crafted web page, which once visited by an unsuspecting Zope user would lead to arbitrary commands execution with the privileges of the Zope/Plone service. References: [1] http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20110928 [2] http://secunia.com/advisories/46221/ Note: The vendor announced the final version of the advisory and the patch to be available at 2011-10-04 15:00 UTC at the following location: [3] http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20110928
CVE Request: [4] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/29/9
Zope 2.12.x or 2.13.x is not in Fedora or EPEL.
This issue did NOT affect the versions of the zope and plone packages, as present within EPEL-5 repository.
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 5.
The CVE identifier of CVE-2011-3587 has been assigned to this issue: [5] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/09/30/7