CVE-2012-5508 Information

Description

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.

Reference

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