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CVE-2012-5489

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-09-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The App.Undo.UndoSupport.get_request_var_or_attr function in Zope before 2.12.21 and 3.13.x before 2.13.11, as used in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1, allows remote authenticated users to gain access to restricted attributes via unspecified vectors.

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: through 2.13.10; 2.5.1, 2.6.1, 2.6.4, 2.7.0, 2.7.3, 2.7.4 (+30)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/1079238
• https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt
• https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106
• https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/05
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/1079238
• https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt
• https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106
• https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/05

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