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CVE-2012-5507

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% 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-362

Description

AccessControl/AuthEncoding.py in Zope before 2.13.19, as used in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1, allows remote attackers to obtain passwords via vectors involving timing discrepancies in password validation.

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://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/1071067
• 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/20121106/23
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/1071067
• 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/20121106/23

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