>> Zope PythonScripts Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability
Title : Zope PythonScripts Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2418 CVE ID : CVE-2008-5102 CWE ID : CWE-400
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2008-08-21
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Zope, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error when processing PythonScripts containing "raise SystemExit" or certain "encode()" and "decode()" calls, which could allow attackers with unrestricted access to the ZMI and the ability to edit PythonScripts to shutdown a complete Zope 2 instance or cause it to hang, creating a denial of service condition.
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