CVE-2012-6661

Summary

CVECVE-2012-6661
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-11-03 22:55:00 UTC
Updated2014-11-05 03:32:00 UTC
DescriptionZope before 2.13.19, as used in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1, does not reseed the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), which makes it easier for remote attackers to guess the value via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this issue was SPLIT from CVE-2012-5508 due to different vulnerability types (ADT2).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-310

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Plone Plone 1.0 All All All
Application Plone Plone 1.0.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 1.0.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 1.0.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 1.0.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 1.0.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 1.0.6 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.0 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.0.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.0.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.0.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.0.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.0.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.1.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.1.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.1.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.1.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.5.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.5.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.5.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.5.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.5.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.0 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.0.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.0.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.0.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.0.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.0.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.0.6 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.1.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.1.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.1.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.1.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.1.5.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.1.6 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.1.7 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.2.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.2.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.2.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.3.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.3.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.3.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.3.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.3.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.0 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.0.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.0.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.0.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.0.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.0.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.0.6.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.1.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.1.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.1.6 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.2.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 1.0 All All All
Application Plone Plone 1.0.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 1.0.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 1.0.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 1.0.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 1.0.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 1.0.6 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.0 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.0.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.0.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.0.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.0.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.0.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.1.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.1.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.1.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.1.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.5.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.5.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.5.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.5.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 2.5.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.0 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.0.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.0.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.0.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.0.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.0.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.0.6 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.1.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.1.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.1.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.1.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.1.5.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.1.6 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.1.7 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.2.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.2.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.2.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.3.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.3.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.3.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.3.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 3.3.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.0 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.0.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.0.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.0.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.0.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.0.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.0.6.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.1.4 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.1.5 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.1.6 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.2 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.2.1 All All All
Application Plone Plone 4.3 All All All
Application Plone Plone All All All All
Application Zope Zope All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121124 CONFIRM plone.org
oss-security - Re: Re: CVE Request - Zope / Plone: Multiple vectors corrected within 20121106 fix MLIST www.openwall.com
Products.CMFPlone/CHANGES.txt at 4.2.3 · plone/Products.CMFPlone · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
PRNG isn't reseeded — Plone CMS: Open Source Content Management CONFIRM plone.org Vendor Advisory
Bug #1071067 “Improper use of random module” : Bugs : Zope 2 CONFIRM bugs.launchpad.net Exploit
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 981327 Python (pip) Security Update for Plone (GHSA-48vv-2pmq-9fvv)
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