PT-2014-2314 · Plone Foundation · Plone

Published 2014-09-30 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2012-5487

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

8.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Plone versions prior to 4.2.3 Plone version 4.3 before beta 1

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users with certain privileges to bypass the Python sandbox restriction and execute arbitrary Python code via vectors related to importing, specifically through the sandbox whitelisting function, which is related to the allowmodule.py module.

Recommendations For Plone versions prior to 4.2.3, update to version 4.2.3 or later. For Plone version 4.3 before beta 1, update to beta 1 or later. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the allowmodule.py module to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Protection Mechanism Failure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

CWE-693

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5487

GHSA-9M4G-F42Q-VRRH

PYSEC-2014-29

Affected Products

Plone

References · 10

• https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106 · Patch
• https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/03 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5487 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2014-29 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-9m4g-f42q-vrrh · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2014-29.yaml · Note
• https://github.com/plone/Plone · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5487 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1 · Note