SCA: security update for Plone, Zope2 (GHSA-48vv-2pmq-9fvv)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422743

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- Zope 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). (CVE-2012-6661)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-48vv-2pmq-9fvv

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422743

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 8/8/2025

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-6661

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 7.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/23/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6661

BID: 70898

cwe: CWE-336