Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Plone - CVE-2012-5487
Published: September 30, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41271
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-5487
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Plone
Affected software:
Plone
Plone
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to execute arbitrary code.
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2012-5487
Install update from vendor's website.