critical
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CVE-2012-5488: Code Injection

First published: Wed Nov 21 2012(Updated: )

A security flaw was found in the way Plone, a user friendly and powerful content management system, performed protection of privilege to run RestrictedPython scripts. A remote attacker could provide a specially-crafted URL that, when processed, would allow the attacker to submit and perform excessively expensive computations or (in conjuction with other attacks) to access or alter privileged information. References: [1] <a href="http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/04">http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/04</a> [2] <a href="http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/">http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/</a> Relevant upstream HotFixes: [3] <a href="http://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106">http://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106</a> From the OSS post: [4] <a href="http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/07/4">http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/07/4</a> the python_scripts.py createObject() change from upstream HotFix is relevant to this issue.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Plone Plone<=4.2.2
Plone Plone=1.0
Plone Plone=1.0.1
Plone Plone=1.0.2
Plone Plone=1.0.3
Plone Plone=1.0.4
Plone Plone=1.0.5
Plone Plone=1.0.6
Plone Plone=2.0
Plone Plone=2.0.1
Plone Plone=2.0.2
Plone Plone=2.0.3
Plone Plone=2.0.4
Plone Plone=2.0.5
Plone Plone=2.1
Plone Plone=2.1.1
Plone Plone=2.1.2
Plone Plone=2.1.3
Plone Plone=2.1.4
Plone Plone=2.5
Plone Plone=2.5.1
Plone Plone=2.5.2
Plone Plone=2.5.3
Plone Plone=2.5.4
Plone Plone=2.5.5
Plone Plone=3.0
Plone Plone=3.0.1
Plone Plone=3.0.2
Plone Plone=3.0.3
Plone Plone=3.0.4
Plone Plone=3.0.5
Plone Plone=3.0.6
Plone Plone=3.1
Plone Plone=3.1.1
Plone Plone=3.1.2
Plone Plone=3.1.3
Plone Plone=3.1.4
Plone Plone=3.1.5.1
Plone Plone=3.1.6
Plone Plone=3.1.7
Plone Plone=3.2
Plone Plone=3.2.1
Plone Plone=3.2.2
Plone Plone=3.2.3
Plone Plone=3.3
Plone Plone=3.3.1
Plone Plone=3.3.2
Plone Plone=3.3.3
Plone Plone=3.3.4
Plone Plone=3.3.5
Plone Plone=4.0
Plone Plone=4.0.1
Plone Plone=4.0.2
Plone Plone=4.0.3
Plone Plone=4.0.4
Plone Plone=4.0.5
Plone Plone=4.0.6.1
Plone Plone=4.1
Plone Plone=4.1.4
Plone Plone=4.1.5
Plone Plone=4.1.6
Plone Plone=4.2
Plone Plone=4.2-a1
Plone Plone=4.2-a2
Plone Plone=4.2-b1
Plone Plone=4.2-b2
Plone Plone=4.2-rc1
Plone Plone=4.2-rc2
Plone Plone=4.2.0.1
Plone Plone=4.2.1
Plone Plone=4.2.1.1
Plone Plone=4.3
pip/Plone>=4.3a0<4.3b1
4.3b1
pip/Plone<4.2.3
4.2.3

Remedy

https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106

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