CVE-2012-5486
HTTP header injection in Plone and Zope2
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.82%
Description
ZPublisher.HTTPRequest._scrubHeader in Zope 2 before 2.13.19, as used in Plone before 4.3 beta 1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via a linefeed (LF) character.
How to fix CVE-2012-5486
To remediate CVE-2012-5486, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- PyPI/plone—upgrade to 4.2.3 or later
- —upgrade to 4.2.3 or later
- —upgrade to 2.13.19 or later
- —upgrade to 2.13.19 or later
Is CVE-2012-5486 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- >= 3.3.2, < 4.2.3
- from 0, < 4.2.3
- from 0, < 2.13.19
- from 0, < 2.13.19
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |