CVE-2012-5496
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
kupu_spellcheck.py in Kupu in Plone before 4.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (ZServer thread lock) via a crafted URL.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| plone | plone | {"endIncluding":"3.3.5"} | |
| plone | plone | 1.0 | |
| plone | plone | 1.0.1 | |
| plone | plone | 1.0.2 | |
| plone | plone | 1.0.3 | |
| plone | plone | 1.0.4 | |
| plone | plone | 1.0.5 | |
| plone | plone | 1.0.6 | |
| plone | plone | 2.0 | |
| plone | plone | 2.0.1 | |
| plone | plone | 2.0.2 | |
| plone | plone | 2.0.3 | |
| plone | plone | 2.0.4 | |
| plone | plone | 2.0.5 | |
| plone | plone | 2.1 | |
| plone | plone | 2.1.1 | |
| plone | plone | 2.1.2 | |
| plone | plone | 2.1.3 | |
| plone | plone | 2.1.4 | |
| plone | plone | 2.5 | |
| plone | plone | 2.5.1 | |
| plone | plone | 2.5.2 | |
| plone | plone | 2.5.3 | |
| plone | plone | 2.5.4 | |
| plone | plone | 2.5.5 | |
| plone | plone | 3.0 | |
| plone | plone | 3.0.1 | |
| plone | plone | 3.0.2 | |
| plone | plone | 3.0.3 | |
| plone | plone | 3.0.4 | |
| plone | plone | 3.0.5 | |
| plone | plone | 3.0.6 | |
| plone | plone | 3.1 | |
| plone | plone | 3.1.1 | |
| plone | plone | 3.1.2 | |
| plone | plone | 3.1.3 | |
| plone | plone | 3.1.4 | |
| plone | plone | 3.1.5.1 | |
| plone | plone | 3.1.6 | |
| plone | plone | 3.1.7 | |
| plone | plone | 3.2 | |
| plone | plone | 3.2.1 | |
| plone | plone | 3.2.2 | |
| plone | plone | 3.2.3 | |
| plone | plone | 3.3 | |
| plone | plone | 3.3.1 | |
| plone | plone | 3.3.2 | |
| plone | plone | 3.3.3 | |
| plone | plone | 3.3.4 | |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1
- https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt
- https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106
- https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/12
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5496
- https://github.com/plone/Plone
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2014-38.yaml
CWEs
CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.