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Zope Multiple Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks Zope version

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

The remote web server contains an application server that is prone to
multiple vulnerabilities.

Description :

The remote web server is a version of Zope which is older than version
2.6.3.

There are multiple security issues in all releases prior to version
2.6.3 or 2.7 BETA4 which can be exploited by a possible hacker to perform cross
site scripting attacks, obtain information about the remote host, or
disable this service remotely.

*** Nessus solely relied on the version number of your server, so if
*** the hotfix has already been applied, this might be a false positive

See also :

http://mail.zope.org/pipermail/zope-announce/2004-January/001325.html

Solution :

Upgrade to Zope 2.6.3 or later.

Network Security Threat Level:

Medium / CVSS Base Score : 4
(AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:P/A:N/I:N/B:C)

Networks Security ID: 9400

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