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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PLONE-40107
  • published6 Nov 2012
  • disclosed6 Nov 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Nov 2012

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

CVSS Scores

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