PT-2017-16557 · Plone Foundation · Plone

Armin Ronacher · Published 2017-03-23 · Updated 2019-10-03 · CVE-2017-5524

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Plone versions 4.x through 4.3.11 Plone versions 5.x through 5.0.6

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism and obtain sensitive information. This is achieved by leveraging the Python string format method.

Recommendations For Plone versions 4.x through 4.3.11, update to a version later than 4.3.11 to resolve the issue. For Plone versions 5.x through 5.0.6, update to a version later than 5.0.6 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-134

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-5524

GHSA-P5WR-VP8G-Q5P4

PYSEC-2017-81

Affected Products

Plone

References · 12

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-5524 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/18/6 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2017-81 · Vendor Advisory
• https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20170117/sandbox-escape · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5524 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-p5wr-vp8g-q5p4 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/pull/1912 · Note
• https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/commit/a7d47692058e10ce89968e7ca4dacbdf44fcad4f · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2017-81.yaml · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p5wr-vp8g-q5p4 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5524 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/95679 · Note