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CVE-2017-5524

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-5524 describes a sandbox bypass vulnerability in Plone versions 4.x through 4.3.11 and 5.x through 5.0.6. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) allows an authenticated remote attacker to obtain sensitive information by leveraging the Python string format method. While the attack complexity is low, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

4.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.90%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0190 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 21,974 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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 (3)

pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: PloneFixed in: 4.3.12
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: PloneFixed in: 5.0.7
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: PloneFixed in: 5.1b1

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-p5wr-vp8g-q5p4medium

Plone Sandbox Escape

Jul 12, 2018
redhatCVE-2017-5524Low

plone: sandbox bypass via str.format in templates

Jan 17, 2017

References

plone.org / security/hotfix/20170117/sandbox-escape
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2017/01/18/6
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/95679
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry