Plone <= 4.1.3 DoS

high Nessus Plugin ID 329010

Synopsis

The remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

The version of Plone installed on the remote host is less than or equal to 4.1.3. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service vulnerability due to improper handling of hash values for form parameters to prevent hash collisions. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue, via specially crafted requests, to cause the application to stop responding.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

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Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 329010

File Name: plone_CVE-2011-4462.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Family: Misc.

Published: 7/22/2026

Updated: 7/23/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-4462

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:plone:plone

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/12/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/28/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4462

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