🛡️ CVE-2012-5491 — plone

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-200 OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

Plone Information Disclosure

z3c.form, as used in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1, allows remote attackers to obtain the default form field values by leveraging knowledge of the form location and the element id.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2012-5491 is classified as CWE-200: Exposure of Sensitive Information. Information that should stay internal is disclosed to someone who is not authorised to see it.

Affected software

CVE-2012-5491 is recorded against 1 package.

  • plone (from 4.3a0 up to 4.3b1)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 14 October 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
plone.org (Web)
plone.org (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-200
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-10-14
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
plone 4.3a0 4.3b1

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