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CVE-2012-5486

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5486 describes an HTTP header injection vulnerability in Zope 2, specifically within the ZPublisher.HTTPRequest._scrubHeader function, affecting Zope 2 before version 2.13.19 and Plone before 4.3 beta 1. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this flaw by injecting arbitrary HTTP headers using a linefeed character. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.4, indicating medium severity with low attack complexity and potential for partial integrity and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

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

6.4MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0250 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (5)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Zope2Fixed in: 2.13.19
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-77hv-8796-8ccphigh

HTTP header injection in Plone and Zope2

Jul 23, 2018
redhatCVE-2012-5486Moderate

(Plone): Reflexive HTTP header injection

Nov 6, 2012

References

rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1194.html
bugs.launchpad.net / zope2/+bug/930812
plone.org / products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106
Patch
plone.org / products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/02
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1