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CVE-2012-5493

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% 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-94

Description

gtbn.py in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1 allows remote authenticated users with certain permissions to bypass the Python sandbox and execute arbitrary Python code 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)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1
• 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/20121106/09
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1
• 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/20121106/09

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