CVE-2012-5489 Plone and Zope2 vulnerable to unauthorized access to restricted attributes

What is CVE-2012-5489?

CVE-2012-5489 is a medium-severity missing authorization 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 App.Undo.UndoSupport.get_request_var_or_attr function in Zope before 2.12.21 and 3.13.x before 2.13.11, as used in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1, allows remote authenticated users to gain access to restricted attributes via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5489?

10 open source packages ship an affected version, including plone, Plone and Zope2. It affects 2 products.

Products include Plone Plone, Zope Zope.

How do I fix CVE-2012-5489?

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

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2012-5489 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5489 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-879r-7f3w-8jj3, PYSEC-2014-31, PYSEC-2014-74.