CVE-2020-7938

Advisory

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. See: CVE-2020-7938.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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.


MISC:https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121: https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121
MISC:https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121/privilege-escalation-when-plone-restapi-is-installed: https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121/privilege-escalation-when-plone-restapi-is-installed
MISC:https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/22/1: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/22/1
MLIST:[oss-security] 20200124 Re: Plone security hotfix 20200121: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/24/1

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-7938
• https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121
• https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121/privilege-escalation-when-plone-restapi-is-installed
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/22/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/24/1