Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting accesscontrol package, versions [3.0,3.0.3]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (67th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ACCESSCONTROL-40108
  • published24 Feb 2016
  • disclosed30 Sept 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 30 Sep 2014

CVE-2012-5487  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

accesscontrol is a Security framework for Zope2. 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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1