CVE-2012-6661

mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.024 · 84 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

2.38% (84th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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).

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 4.3–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nsecondary · OSV

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-310USprimaryCWE-336US

affected products (71)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
plone plone≤ 4.2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 1.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 1.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 1.0.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 1.0.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 1.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 1.0.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 2.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 2.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 2.0.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 2.0.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 2.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 2.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 2.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 2.1.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 2.1.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
plone plone= 2.1.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:plone:plone:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-48vv-2pmq-9fvvPlone and Zope2 do not reseed pseudo-random number generator2018-07-23ghsa · osvUS
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).
PYSEC-2014-512014-11-03vendor · osvUS
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).
PYSEC-2014-762014-11-03vendor · osvUS
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).

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2014-11-03modified 2026-06-16

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references (15)

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