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CVE-2012-5508: Exposure of Sensitive Information in Plone

May 17, 2022 (updated October 14, 2024)

The error pages in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1 allow remote attackers to obtain random numbers and derive the PRNG state for password resets via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types. CVE-2012-6661 was assigned for the PRNG reseeding issue in Zope.

References

  • bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/1071067
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-wprr-mc54-c62q
  • github.com/plone/Plone
  • github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt
  • github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2014-50.yaml
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5508
  • plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121124
  • plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/24

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 4.3a0 before 4.3b1, all versions before 4.2.3

Fixed versions

  • 4.2.3
  • 4.3b1

Solution

Upgrade to versions 4.2.3, 4.3b1 or above.

Impact 5.3 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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Weakness

  • CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Source file

pypi/Plone/CVE-2012-5508.yml

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