CVE-2012-6661
Plone and Zope2 do not reseed pseudo-random number generator
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.40%
Description
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).
How to fix CVE-2012-6661
To remediate CVE-2012-6661, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —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-2012-6661 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- >= 3.2.2, < 4.2.3
- from 0, < 4.2.3, >= 4.3a0, < 4.3b1
- 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:H/VI:N/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:H/I:N/A:N |