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Vulnerability details: VCID-6568-4ert-1bau
Vulnerability ID VCID-6568-4ert-1bau
Aliases CVE-2017-5524
GHSA-p5wr-vp8g-q5p4
PYSEC-2017-81
Summary Plone 4.x through 4.3.11 and 5.x through 5.0.6 allow remote attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism and obtain sensitive information by leveraging the Python string format method.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
There are no known severity scores.
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p5wr-vp8g-q5p4
https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/commit/a7d47692058e10ce89968e7ca4dacbdf44fcad4f
https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/pull/1912
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2017-81.yaml
https://plone.org/security/hotfix/20170117/sandbox-escape
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/18/6
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95679
CVE-2017-5524 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-5524
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

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Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:04:35.281026+00:00 Pypa Importer Import https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2017-81.yaml 38.6.0