VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-5508

medium
Published 2014-11-03 · Modified 2023-11-08
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CVSS v3
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

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.

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.

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Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIplone<4.2.34.2.3
python PyPIplone>=4.3a0,<4.3b14.3b1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
ploneplone{"endIncluding":"4.2.2"}
ploneplone1.0
ploneplone1.0.1
ploneplone1.0.2
ploneplone1.0.3
ploneplone1.0.4
ploneplone1.0.5
ploneplone1.0.6
ploneplone2.0
ploneplone2.0.1
ploneplone2.0.2
ploneplone2.0.3
ploneplone2.0.4
ploneplone2.0.5
ploneplone2.1
ploneplone2.1.1
ploneplone2.1.2
ploneplone2.1.3
ploneplone2.1.4
ploneplone2.5
ploneplone2.5.1
ploneplone2.5.2
ploneplone2.5.3
ploneplone2.5.4
ploneplone2.5.5
ploneplone3.0
ploneplone3.0.1
ploneplone3.0.2
ploneplone3.0.3
ploneplone3.0.4
ploneplone3.0.5
ploneplone3.0.6
ploneplone3.1
ploneplone3.1.1
ploneplone3.1.2
ploneplone3.1.3
ploneplone3.1.4
ploneplone3.1.5.1
ploneplone3.1.6
ploneplone3.1.7
ploneplone3.2
ploneplone3.2.1
ploneplone3.2.2
ploneplone3.2.3
ploneplone3.3
ploneplone3.3.1
ploneplone3.3.2
ploneplone3.3.3
ploneplone3.3.4
ploneplone3.3.5
ploneplone4.0
ploneplone4.0.1
ploneplone4.0.2
ploneplone4.0.3
ploneplone4.0.4
ploneplone4.0.5
ploneplone4.0.6.1
ploneplone4.1
ploneplone4.1.4
ploneplone4.1.5
ploneplone4.1.6
ploneplone4.2
ploneplone4.2.1
ploneplone4.3

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.