VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-4041

high
Published 2017-02-24 · Modified 2024-04-29
CVSS v3
7.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
7.3

Description

Plone 4.0 through 5.1a1 does not have security declarations for Dexterity content-related WebDAV requests, which allows remote attackers to gain webdav access via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
82%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20160419/privilege-escalation-in-webdav

Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIplone>=3.3,<4.3.104.3.10
python PyPIplone>=5.0,<5.0.55.0.5
python PyPIplone>=5.1a1,<5.1a25.1a2
python PyPIplone>=4.0,<5.1a25.1a2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ploneplone4.0
ploneplone4.0.1
ploneplone4.0.2
ploneplone4.0.3
ploneplone4.0.4
ploneplone4.0.5
ploneplone4.0.7
ploneplone4.0.8
ploneplone4.0.9
ploneplone4.0.10
ploneplone4.1
ploneplone4.1.1
ploneplone4.1.2
ploneplone4.1.3
ploneplone4.1.4
ploneplone4.1.5
ploneplone4.1.6
ploneplone4.2
ploneplone4.2.1
ploneplone4.2.2
ploneplone4.2.3
ploneplone4.2.4
ploneplone4.2.5
ploneplone4.2.6
ploneplone4.2.7
ploneplone4.3
ploneplone4.3.1
ploneplone4.3.2
ploneplone4.3.3
ploneplone4.3.4
ploneplone4.3.5
ploneplone4.3.6
ploneplone4.3.7
ploneplone4.3.8
ploneplone4.3.9
ploneplone5.0
ploneplone5.0.1
ploneplone5.0.2
ploneplone5.0.3
ploneplone5.0.4

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.