CVE-2012-5507: Plone

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Plone: up to and including 4.2.2; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …
• Zope Zope: version 2.5.1 only; version 2.6.1 only; version 2.6.4 only; version 2.7.0 only; version 2.7.3 only; version 2.7.4 only; …

Published 2014-09-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.