Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting plone package, versions [,4.2.3) [4.3a1,4.3b1)

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0.26% (66^th percentile)

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Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PLONE-40107
published 6 Nov 2012
disclosed 6 Nov 2012
credit Unknown

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Introduced: 6 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-5487 Open this link in a new tab CWE-264 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

plone is a Content Management System.

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.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1

Attack Vector (AV)

Network
Attack Complexity (AC)

Low
Privileges Required (PR)

Low
User Interaction (UI)

Required

Scope (S)

Unchanged

Confidentiality (C)

High
Integrity (I)

High
Availability (A)

High