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CVE-2020-7938plone.restapi in Plone 5.2.0 through 5.2.1 allows users with a certain privilege level to escalate their privileges up to the highest level.
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 1.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 26% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
plone.restapi in Plone 5.2.0 through 5.2.1 allows users with a certain privilege level to escalate their privileges up to the highest level.
Timeline
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Published
- 5 years later
· 5 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 | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 26% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIPloneGHSA-cjg3-q24h-9qwf (opens in a new tab)
- PyPIplone.restapiGHSA-cjg3-q24h-9qwf (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/01/22/1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20200121/privilege-escalation-when-plone-restapi-is-installed (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20200124 Re: Plone security hotfix 20200121 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-0145 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-cjg3-q24h-9qwf (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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