CVE-2012-5508

Advisory

The error pages in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1 allow remote attackers to obtain random numbers and derive the PRNG state for password resets via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types. CVE-2012-6661 was assigned for the PRNG reseeding issue in Zope.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

The error pages in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1 allow remote attackers to obtain random numbers and derive the PRNG state for password resets via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types. CVE-2012-6661 was assigned for the PRNG reseeding issue in Zope.


MLIST:[oss-security] 20121109 Re: Re: CVE Request - Zope / Plone: Multiple vectors corrected within 20121106 fix: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1
CONFIRM:https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/1071067: https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/1071067
CONFIRM:https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt: https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt
CONFIRM:https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121124: https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121124
CONFIRM:https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/24: https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/24

Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-5508
• https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt
• https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/24
• https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121124
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/1071067