CVE-2008-5102

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-11-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

PythonScripts in Zope 2 2.11.2 and earlier, as used in Conga and other products, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption or application halt) via certain (1) raise or (2) import statements.

Affected products

zopefoundation Zope: through 2.11.2; 1.10.3, 1.10.4, 2.0.0, 2.0.0a4, 2.0.0b4, 2.0.0b5 (+155)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246411
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2008-August/174025.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/12/2
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2418
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix-2008-08-12/Hotfix_20080812-1.1.0.tar.gz
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix-2008-08-12/README.txt
https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/257269
https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/257276
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246411
http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope/2008-August/174025.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/12/2
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2418

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