CVE-2012-5508 Exposure of Sensitive Information in Plone

What is CVE-2012-5508?

CVE-2012-5508 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Plone Plone, published on 3 Nov 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The error pages in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1 allow remote attackers to obtain random numbers and derive the PRNG state for password resets via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types. CVE-2012-6661 was assigned for the PRNG reseeding issue in Zope.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5508?

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-2012-5508?

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

Is CVE-2012-5508 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5508 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2020-7941 Plone Unauthenticated Write Vulnerability Critical 9.8
• CVE-2011-3587 Zope Command Execution Vulnerability Critical 9.3
• CVE-2021-33926 Server-Side Request Forgery in Plone CMS High 8.8

All Plone Plone vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as GHSA-wprr-mc54-c62q, PYSEC-2014-50.