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CVE-2012-5487

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Date: September 30, 2014

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.

Language: Python

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Related Resources (8)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1
https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/03
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5487
https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2014-29.yaml
https://github.com/plone/Plone
https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-5487

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

Protection Mechanism Failure

CWE-693

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): CHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): SINGLE
Confidentiality (C): COMPLETE
Integrity (I): COMPLETE
Availability (A): COMPLETE
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