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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2008-1394 json

Plone CMS Improper Session Management

published 2008-03-20 18 y ago modified 2026-07-06 4 mo ago also GHSA-mq3q-jjph-rp5p , PYSEC-2026-734 , EUVD-2022-4607

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 73%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Plone CMS before 3 places a base64 encoded form of the username and password in the __ac cookie for all user accounts, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by sniffing the network.

Patch / fix

  • pypi plone 3.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-1394 updated

Plone stores a password in a cookie

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 73% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi plone
<3.0
3.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-255 Credentials Management Errors

References

Sources

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