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Plone restplone.rest vulnerable to Denial of Service when ++api++ is used many times

Risk 45
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact When the ++api++ traverser is accidentally used multiple times in a url, handling it takes increasingly longer, making the server less responsive.

Patches Patches will be released in plone.rest 2.0.1 and 3.0.1. Series 1.x is not affected.

Workarounds In your frontend web server (nginx, Apache) you can redirect /++api++/++api++ to /++api++.

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First published (updated )
CVE-2023-42457

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