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CVE-2012-5489

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5489 describes a vulnerability in Zope and Plone, specifically within the App.Undo.UndoSupport.get_request_var_or_attr function, allowing authenticated users to gain access to restricted attributes. With a CVSS score of 6.5, this vulnerability is moderately severe, requiring authentication but having low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage 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

6.5MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.92%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0192 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 21,924 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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: Zope2Fixed in: 2.12.21
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Zope2Fixed in: 2.13.11
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: PloneFixed in: 4.2.3
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: PloneFixed in: 4.3b1

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-879r-7f3w-8jj3high

Plone and Zope2 vulnerable to unauthorized access to restricted attributes

Jul 23, 2018
redhatCVE-2012-5489Moderate

(Plone): Partial restricted Python sandbox escape

Nov 6, 2012

References

bugs.launchpad.net / zope2/+bug/1079238
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/20121106/05
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1