CVE-2012-5486

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-09-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

ZPublisher.HTTPRequest._scrubHeader in Zope 2 before 2.13.19, as used in Plone before 4.3 beta 1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers via a linefeed (LF) character.

Affected products

Plone CMS: through 4.2.2; 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+65)
zopefoundation Zope: 2.5.1, 2.6.1, 2.6.4, 2.7.0, 2.7.3, 2.7.4 (+21)

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1194.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/930812
https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106
https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/02
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1194.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/930812
https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106
https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/02

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