CVE-2011-4462: Plone Denial of Service vulnerability

July 23, 2018 (updated October 11, 2024)

Plone 4.1.3 and earlier computes hash values for form parameters without restricting the ability to trigger hash collisions predictably, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) by sending many crafted parameters.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72018
github.com/advisories/GHSA-pcwm-8jc3-qxvj
github.com/plone/plone
github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2011-22.yaml
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4462

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