CVE-2006-4249 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in PlonePAS in Plone 2.5 and 2.5.1, when anonymous member registration is enabled, allows an attacker to "masquerade as a group."

Published: 2006-12-07

Score: 4.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:2.5:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:2.5.1:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-0003	Unspecified vulnerability in PlonePAS in Plone 2.5 and 2.5.1, when anonymous member registration is enabled, allows an attacker to \"masquerade as a group.\"
Github GHSA	GHSA-r7j4-82xw-8m9p	Plone allows a user to masquerade as a group

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00593.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://plone.org/about/security/advisories/cve-2006-4249/
http://secunia.com/advisories/23240
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21460
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4878
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30762

History

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Subscriptions

Plone Plone

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: debian

Published: 2006-12-07T23:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T19:06:07.233Z

Reserved: 2006-08-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-4249

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-12-07T23:28:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-4249

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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