CVE-2013-4199

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-03-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

(1) cb_decode.py and (2) linkintegrity.py in Plone 2.1 through 4.1, 4.2.x through 4.2.5, and 4.3.x through 4.3.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a large zip archive, which is expanded (decompressed).

Affected products

Plone CMS: 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 4.2.5 (+46)

References

http://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20130618
http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20130618-announcement
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/261
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=978482
http://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20130618
http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20130618-announcement
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/261
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=978482

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