CVE-2012-5487 Information

Description

The sandbox whitelisting function (allowmodule.py) in Plone before 4.2.3 and 4.3 before beta 1 allows remote authenticated users with certain privileges to bypass the Python sandbox restriction and execute arbitrary Python code via vectors related to importing.

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/10/1 https://github.com/plone/Products.CMFPlone/blob/4.2.3/docs/CHANGES.txt https://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/03 https://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106