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CVE-2009-0662

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-0662 describes an authentication bypass vulnerability in PlonePAS versions 3.x before 3.9 and 3.2.x before 3.2.2, a product for the Plone content management system. This flaw allows remote authenticated users to impersonate arbitrary users due to improper handling of the login form. With a CVSS score of 6.0, this vulnerability has a medium severity, requiring authenticated access but with moderate attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting low current threat activity.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plonepas:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plonepas:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plonepas:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plonepas:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plonepas:3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.97%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
58.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0097 is in the 51st percentile among its peer group of 1,424 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Products.PlonePASFixed in: 3.9

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-pq3x-96c3-xgjgmedium

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects Products.PlonePAS

Jul 23, 2018
redhatCVE-2009-0662Moderate

plone: authentication flaw in login form

Apr 21, 2009

References

osvdb.org / 53975
plone.org / products/plone/security/advisories/cve-2009-0662
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34840
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/50061
securityfocus.com / bid/34664