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Vulnerability details: VCID-chqa-wbu7-eyak
Vulnerability ID VCID-chqa-wbu7-eyak
Aliases CVE-2012-5498
GHSA-97rj-p794-wq6m
PYSEC-2014-40
Summary queryCatalog.py in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1 allows remote attackers to bypass caching and cause a denial of service via a crafted request to a collection.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
There are no known severity scores.
Reference id Reference type URL
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1194.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014:1194
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874665
https://github.com/plone/Plone
https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2014-40.yaml
https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106
https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/14
https://web.archive.org/web/20130528001715/https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106
https://web.archive.org/web/20131103191705/https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/14
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/09/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1
CVE-2012-5498 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-5498
CVE-2012-5498 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5498
GHSA-97rj-p794-wq6m https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-97rj-p794-wq6m
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

No EPSS data available for this vulnerability.

Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:03:45.291357+00:00 Pypa Importer Import https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2014-40.yaml 38.6.0