CVE-2012-6661: Plone

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Zope before 2.13.19, as used in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1, does not reseed the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess the value via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2012-5508 due to different vulnerability types (ADT2).

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: up to and including 2.13.18

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