CVE-2023-42457
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-21 14:49
Modified
2025-02-13 17:09
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
plone.rest vulnerable to Denial of Service when ++api++ is used many times
References
security-advisories@github.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/22/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/plone/plone.rest/commit/43b4a7e86206e237e1de5ca3817ed071575882f7Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/plone/plone.rest/commit/77846a9842889b24f35e8bedc2e9d461388d3302Patch
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/plone/plone.rest/security/advisories/GHSA-h6rp-mprm-xgcqVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/09/22/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/plone/plone.rest/commit/43b4a7e86206e237e1de5ca3817ed071575882f7Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/plone/plone.rest/commit/77846a9842889b24f35e8bedc2e9d461388d3302Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/plone/plone.rest/security/advisories/GHSA-h6rp-mprm-xgcqVendor Advisory
Impacted products
ploneplone.rest
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