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CVE-2012-5499

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5499 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Plone versions before 4.2.3 and 4.3 beta 1, specifically within the python_scripts.py component. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by providing a large value to the formatColumns function, leading to excessive memory consumption. While the CVSS score is 5.0 (medium severity) with an availability impact, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, 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

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0243 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 23,703 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 (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-wrf2-2rch-cmr9high

Plone is vulnerable to denial of service

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2012-5499Low

(Plone): Partial denial of service through internal function

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/20121106/15
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1