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CVE-2012-5498
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…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.7%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 24 months later
· 24 months later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (6)
- https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20121109 Re: Re: CVE Request - Zope / Plone: Multiple vectors corrected within 20121106 fix (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/14 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20121109 Re: Re: CVE Request - Zope / Plone: Multiple vectors corrected within 20121106 fix (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1194 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-97rj-p794-wq6m (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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