PT-2014-2320 · Plone Foundation · Plone

Alan Hoey · Published 2014-09-30 · Updated 2022-05-17 · CVE-2012-5493

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 versions 4.3 before beta 1

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to bypass the Python sandbox and execute arbitrary Python code via unspecified vectors. This is related to the gtbn.py module.

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

Fix

Protection Mechanism Failure

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-693

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-5493

GHSA-25JH-5H5R-H33M

PYSEC-2014-35

Affected Products

Plone

References · 10

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5493 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2014-35 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/09 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-25jh-5h5r-h33m · Vendor Advisory
• https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106 · Patch
• 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-2014-35.yaml · Note
• https://github.com/plone/Plone · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5493 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1 · Note