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CVE-2012-5498 — plone

HIGH

CVE-2012-5498 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) CWE-264 vulnerability in plone. A fix is available for plone — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Plone denial of service via Caching Bypass

Also known asPYSEC-2014-40
Published
Updated
Affected
2 pkgs
Patched
2 / 2
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 6, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
2.7%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs86th percentile — riskier than 86% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.50%1.39%2.28%3.17%1.0%2.7%May 26Sep 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

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Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

2 pkgs affected
🐍plone🐍plone

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Description

queryCatalog.py in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1 allows remote attackers to bypass caching and cause a denial of service via a crafted request to a collection.

Affected Packages

2 total 2 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🐍PyPIploneall versions4.2.3pip install --upgrade 'plone==4.2.3'
🐍PyPIplone≥ 4.3a0&&< 4.3b14.3b1pip install --upgrade 'plone==4.3b1'

Affected Products

1 product · 72 configurations
Application
ploneplone
≤ 4.2.2
65 versions
1.01.0.11.0.21.0.31.0.41.0.51.0.62.02.0.12.0.22.0.32.0.4

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for plone, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update plone to 4.2.3 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2012-5498 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Cap what an attacker can consume: apply request size, rate and timeout limits in front of the affected component, and run it with memory and CPU limits so exhaustion degrades one worker rather than the whole service.

Fixing This On Your OS

If you run this on a Linux distribution, patch through your package manager against the distro's own security advisory below — it tracks the exact backported fix for your release, which can ship on a different timeline (and sometimes a different severity) than the upstream project.

Red HatLow
ProductFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5conga-0:0.12.2-81.el5RHSA-2014:1194

Frequently Asked Questions

queryCatalog.py in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1 allows remote attackers to bypass caching and cause a denial of service via a crafted request to a collection.
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CVE-2012-5498: plone DoS — Fixed in 4.2.3