Insecure Randomness Affecting zope2 package, versions [,2.13.19)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ZOPE2-40169
  • published6 Nov 2012
  • disclosed6 Nov 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-6661  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-338  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

zope2 is a Zope2 application server / web framework Zope before 2.13.19, as used in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1, does not reseed the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess the value via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2012-5508 due to different vulnerability types (ADT2).

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