CVE-2012-5506 Plone denial of service via RSS Feed Request

What is CVE-2012-5506?

CVE-2012-5506 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Plone Plone, published on 30 Sep 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

python_scripts.py in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an RSS feed request for a folder the user does not have permission to access.

Weakness: CWE-399

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5506?

5 open source packages ship an affected version, including plone and Plone. It affects 1 product.

Products include Plone Plone.

How do I fix CVE-2012-5506?

Upgrade plone to a fixed version for your release line: 4.2.3 or 4.3b1.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2012-5506 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5506 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-79hj-474h-v4xv, PYSEC-2014-48.