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CVE-2011-4030
Vulnerability in plone (CVE-2011-4030)
Summary
vulnerability in plone (CVE-2011-4030). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to `4.2a3` or later.
AI summary snake-internal / snake-material-v2
A vulnerability tracked as **CVE-2011-4030** has been found in plone.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: ?/10.
What to do: upgrade plone to **4.2a3** or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "plone CVE-2011-4030" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2011-4030 (plone) —
Patched: `4.2a3` — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
❓ What is the problem
**A vulnerability** (unclassified) exists in plone.
📍 Affected scope
plone — .
🔥 Severity
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure
🔧 How to fix
Update to **4.2a3**.
🛡️ Workaround
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
🔍 Detection
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run `grep -r 'plone' .` against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response Actions (7 steps)
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'plone' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で `plone` を grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。
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6Apply patch patch
Upgrade plone to 4.2a3ステージング環境で 4.2a3 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスと、Step 3 で見つけた異常検知の続報チェックを含めること。
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7Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番では Step 3 と同じログクエリでアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
PyPI
plone
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"4.2a1"},{"fixed":"4.2a3"}]}]
References
- advisory https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4030
- advisory https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pwgm-jvqv-6v8p
- package https://github.com/plone/Plone
- package https://pypi.org/project/plone
- web https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/products-plonehotfix20110928/PYSEC-2011-27.yaml
- web http://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20110928
- web http://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20110928/PloneHotfix20110928-1.0.zip
- web http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Products.PloneHotfix20110928/1.0