CVE-2012-5487
Plone Sandbox Bypass
9.9
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.66%
Description
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 fix CVE-2012-5487
To remediate CVE-2012-5487, 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
Is CVE-2012-5487 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 4.2.3
- from 0, < 4.2.3, >= 4.3a0, < 4.3b1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |