CVE-2012-5485 Plone Code Injection vulnerability

What is CVE-2012-5485?

CVE-2012-5485 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Plone Plone, published on 30 Sep 2014. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

registerConfiglet.py in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1 allows remote attackers to execute Python code via unspecified vectors, related to the admin interface.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5485?

5 open source packages ship an affected version, including plone and Plone. It affects 1 product.

Products include Plone Plone.

How do I fix CVE-2012-5485?

Upgrade plone to a fixed version for your release line: 4.2.3 or 4.3b1.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2012-5485 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5485 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7hxc-mwx7-5hmc, PYSEC-2014-27.