CVE-2013-4199: Plone Denial of Service vulnerability via decompressing large zip archives

May 17, 2022 (updated October 17, 2024)

(1) cb_decode.py and (2) linkintegrity.py in Plone 2.1 through 4.1, 4.2.x through 4.2.5, and 4.3.x through 4.3.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a large zip archive, which is expanded (decompressed).

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=978482
github.com/advisories/GHSA-xfjq-9rxq-ph6m
github.com/plone/Plone
github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2014-63.yaml
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4199

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