What is CVE-2016-4041?

CVE-2016-4041 is a high-severity vulnerability in Plone, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 7.3/10. Published 2017-02-24.

How severe is CVE-2016-4041?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Plone

CVE-2016-4041

Plone 4.0 through 5.1a1 does not have security declarations for Dexterity content-related WebDAV requests, which allows remote attackers to gain webdav access via unspecified vectors.

Published 2017-02-24 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.3 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.015 (73.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 73rd percentile — 73.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.015 · newest: 0.015 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Plone — versions 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

plone.org/security/hotfix/20160419/privilege-escalation-in-webdav (Vendor Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/1 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-4041?: CVE-2016-4041 is a high-severity vulnerability in Plone, classified under CWE-264. CVSS score: 7.3/10. Published 2017-02-24.
How severe is CVE-2016-4041?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.3 out of 10.