CVE-2012-5508: Plone

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 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; …

Published 2014-11-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.