Plone Security Bypass

High Nessus Plugin ID 53546

Synopsis

The remote web server has an application that that is affected by a security bypass vulnerability.

Description

The version of Plone on the remote host fails to require authentication to access several sensitive functions.

Plone is built on top of Zope, which maps Python objects and their methods to URLs. Methods can have security restrictions, such as requiring a login account or a specific privilege level, applied to them to limit access. The installed version of Plone permits access to several methods that allow the adding, deleting, and changing content and users.

Solution

Apply Plone Hotfix CVE-2011-0720.

See Also

http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/cve-2011-0720

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Apr/293

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 53546

File Name: plone_authentication_bypass.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 2011/04/25

Modified: 2018/07/24

Dependencies: 53545

Risk Information

Risk Factor: High

CVSSv2

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:plone:plone

Required KB Items: www/plone

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Available: false

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Exploited by Nessus: true

Patch Publication Date: 2011/02/08

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2011/02/02

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0720

BID: 46102

Secunia: 43146