🛡️ CVE-2017-1000481 — plone
Description
Products.CMFPlone Open Redirect Vulnerability
When you visit a page where you need to login, Plone 2.5-5.1rc1 sends you to the login form with a 'came_from' parameter set to the previous url. After you login, you get redirected to the page you tried to view before. An attacker might try to abuse this by letting you click on a specially crafted link. You would login, and get redirected to the site of the attacker, letting you think that you are still on the original Plone site. Or some javascript of the attacker could be executed. Most of these types of attacks are already blocked by Plone, using the isURLInPortal check to make sure we only redirect to a page on the same Plone site. But a few more ways of tricking Plone into accepting a malicious link were discovered, and fixed with this hotfix.
How this vulnerability can be exploited
This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability none.
Weakness class
CVE-2017-1000481 is classified as CWE-601: Open Redirect. A redirect target is taken from user input, so a trusted link can send the visitor to an attacker's site.
Affected software
CVE-2017-1000481 is recorded against 2 packages.
- plone (from 5 up to 5.1.0)
- products-cmfplone (from 5.1a1 up to 5.1.0)
Timeline and source
Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 13 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
References
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
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github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
plone.org (Web)
Details
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| plone | 5 | 5.1.0 |
| products-cmfplone | 5.1a1 | 5.1.0 |
References
Similar Threats
- Unknown CVE-2011-1340
- Unknown CVE-2010-2422
- Critical CVE-2011-0720
- High CVE-2011-4030
- High CVE-2012-5485
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