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CVE-2012-5485

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5485 describes a remote code execution vulnerability in Plone versions before 4.2.3 and 4.3 beta 1, specifically within the registerConfiglet.py script accessible via the administrative interface. This flaw, categorized as CWE-94 (Improper Control of Generation of Code), allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary Python code. With a CVSS score of 6.8, it carries a medium severity, indicating that an attacker could achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with moderate attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.07%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
79.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0207 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: PloneFixed in: 4.2.3
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: PloneFixed in: 4.3b1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: conga-0:0.12.2-81.el5
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: conga

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-7hxc-mwx7-5hmchigh

Plone Code Injection vulnerability

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2012-5485Moderate

(Plone): Restricted Python injection

Nov 6, 2012

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1194.html
github.com / plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt
plone.org / products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106
Patch
plone.org / products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/01
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1