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PYSEC-2014-50

Quick fix

PYSEC-2014-50 — plone: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'plone>=4.2.3'

Details

The error pages in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1 allow remote attackers to obtain random numbers and derive the PRNG state for password resets via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this identifier was SPLIT per ADT2 due to different vulnerability types. CVE-2012-6661 was assigned for the PRNG reseeding issue in Zope.

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Affected packages

PyPI/plone

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 4.2.3

Fixpip install --upgrade 'plone>=4.2.3'

References

https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt[WEB]
https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/24[ADVISORY]
https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121124[WEB]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1[WEB]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/zope2/+bug/1071067[WEB]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wprr-mc54-c62q[ADVISORY]