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Vulnerability details: VCID-tc7w-wttv-vfed
Vulnerability ID VCID-tc7w-wttv-vfed
Aliases CVE-2012-5508
GHSA-wprr-mc54-c62q
PYSEC-2014-50
Summary The error pages in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1 allow remote attackers to obtain random numbers and derive the PRNG state for password resets via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types. CVE-2012-6661 was assigned for the PRNG reseeding issue in Zope.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
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/plone/Plone
https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2014-50.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-2012-5508 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-5508
GHSA-wprr-mc54-c62q https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wprr-mc54-c62q
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

No EPSS data available for this vulnerability.

Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:03:55.708504+00:00 Pypa Importer Import https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/plone/PYSEC-2014-50.yaml 38.6.0