CVE-2012-5487 Plone Sandbox Bypass

What is CVE-2012-5487?

CVE-2012-5487 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Plone Plone, published on 30 Sep 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The sandbox whitelisting function (allowmodule.py) in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1 allows remote authenticated users with certain privileges to bypass the Python sandbox restriction and execute arbitrary Python code via vectors related to importing.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5487?

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-2012-5487?

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-2012-5487 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5487 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-9m4g-f42q-vrrh, PYSEC-2014-29.