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Vulnerability details: VCID-khhr-m295-23gs
Vulnerability ID VCID-khhr-m295-23gs
Aliases CVE-2012-6661
GHSA-48vv-2pmq-9fvv
PYSEC-2014-51
PYSEC-2014-76
Summary 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).
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-336 Same Seed in Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG)
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://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/1071067
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-48vv-2pmq-9fvv
https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone
https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2014-51.yaml
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/zope2/PYSEC-2014-76.yaml
https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121124
https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/24
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1
CVE-2012-6661 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6661
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

No EPSS data available for this vulnerability.

Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:03:56.211249+00:00 Pypa Importer Import https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/zope2/PYSEC-2014-76.yaml 38.6.0