GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-8pcw-h6w9-h46g plone.app.contenttypes has a Denial of Service in File Upload due to excessive filename length
MEDIUM
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- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- plone.app.contenttypes
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
- Reviewed
- 2026-09-23
Affected packages
• PyPI plone.app.contenttypes: >= 5.0.0, < 5.0.1 → fixed in 5.0.1
• PyPI plone.app.contenttypes: >= 4.0.0, < 4.0.10 → fixed in 4.0.10
• PyPI plone.app.contenttypes: < 3.0.12 → fixed in 3.0.12
Description
Impact
When creating an Image or File with a very large filename, Plone can become unresponsive. Even if the content loads, it can be hard to edit or delete, because the UI is unwieldy.
Patches
The problem has been patched in `plone.app.contenttypes`.
• On Plone 6.2, upgrade to `plone.app.contenttypes ` 5.0.1.
• On Plone 6.1, upgrade to `plone.app.contenttypes ` 4.0.10.
• On Plone 6.0, upgrade to `plone.app.contenttypes ` 3.0.12
Another part of this problem has been patched in `plone.app.dexterity`. See this advisory.
Workarounds
There are no known workarounds.
This problem was responsibly reported by Aldin Visnjic to the Plone/Zope Security Team. Thank you!
Note: The Plone/Zope Security team felt that the kind of fixes that were needed could be disruptive in corner cases if they were not careful. So they decided to develop the fixes publicly, giving the whole community the chance the review, and giving them the benefit from early feedback.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.contenttypes/security/advisories/GHSA-8pcw-h6w9-h46g web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.contenttypes/pull/744 web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.contenttypes/commit/13dc98a578341aac24a1e65fd9bc7ac8a07d168a web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.contenttypes/commit/21bae6ebe424689eeac9a5884fc0da35f4944e63 web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.contenttypes/commit/639c0619f371df578e69ec94e5ca98e60fd6ed58 web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.contenttypes/commit/7bb03e8ec6c6bd0e645f445b0755e85a51afb158 web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.contenttypes/commit/bed1547d4f8b1fc995f2c76f30ba5f20276a8ad6 web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.contenttypes package
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.contenttypes/releases/tag/3.0.12 web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.contenttypes/releases/tag/4.0.10 web
- https://github.com/plone/plone.app.contenttypes/releases/tag/5.0.1 web