Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 878934
CVE-2012-5485 conga (Plone): Restricted Python injection
Last modified: 2014-11-10 05:05:10 EST
A security flaw was found in the way Plone, a user friendly and powerful content management system based on Zope, performed execution of restricted Python statements, when the administrator interface / control panel was accessed. A remote attacker could inject specially-crafted Python statement / script into the Plone's restricted Python sandbox that, when the administrator interface was accessed would be executed with the privileges of that admin user. References: [1] http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/01 [2] http://plone.org/products/plone/security/advisories/20121106/ Relevant upstream HotFixes: [3] http://plone.org/products/plone-hotfix/releases/20121106 From the OSS post: [4] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/07/4 the registerConfiglet.py change from upstream HotFix is relevant to this issue.
This issue may affect the version of plone as shipped with EPEL5, however the latest version there is 3.1.6 (and the latest 3.x release is 3.3.5, which was released a year prior to this flaw being discovered). Given the age of the EPEL5 package and its lack of support, we do not recommend anyone use it. This issue does affect plone as provided with the conga package on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
IssueDescription: It was discovered that Plone, included as a part of luci, did not properly protect the administrator interface (control panel). A remote attacker could use this flaw to inject a specially crafted Python statement or script into Plone's restricted Python sandbox that, when the administrator interface was accessed, would be executed with the privileges of that administrator user.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2014:1194 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1194.html