Information Exposure Affecting plone package, versions [,4.2.3)[4.3a1,4.3b1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PLONE-40156
  • published6 Nov 2012
  • disclosed6 Nov 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-5508  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

plone is a Content Management System.

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.

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