National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5102
Original release date:11/17/2008
Last revised:11/18/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
PythonScripts in Zope 2 2.11.2 and earlier, as used in Conga and other products, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption or application halt) via certain (1) raise or (2) import statements.
Description
http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix-2008-08-12/README.txt
Affected Versions
* Zope 2.7.0 to Zope 2.11.2
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http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/12/2
Affected Conga versions: - checked conga-0.9.1-8 (contains Zope2.7.5 RC2), conga-0.12.0-7.el5 (contains Zope-2.8.4),
- but older,newer Conga versions can be also vulnerable to this issue (based on Zope 2 version).
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix-2008-08-12/Hotfix_20080812-1.1.0.tar.gz
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/Hotfix-2008-08-12/README.txt
Type: Advisory
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20081112 CVE Request - Zope 2 - PythonScripts local DoS
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246411