CVE-2011-3587 — Zope Command Execution Vulnerability

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Zope 2.12.x and 2.13.x, as used in Plone 4.0.x through 4.0.9, 4.1, and 4.2 through 4.2a2, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via vectors related to the p_ class in OFS/misc_.py and the use of Python modules.

Public exploits

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Metasploit 1 module

Plone and Zope XMLTools Remote Command Execution
exploit/multi/http/plone_popen2

Exploit-DB 1

Plone and Zope - Remote Command Execution EDB-18262 · webapps · Dec 21, 2011 · verified

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Affected packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed	Record
PyPI	zope2	>= 2.12.0, < 2.12.20	2.12.20	GHSA-8w48-m6hx-rjw2
PyPI	zope2	>= 2.13.0, < 2.13.10	2.13.10	GHSA-8w48-m6hx-rjw2
PyPI	zope2	>= 2.12.0, < 2.12.20 · >= 2.13.0, < 2.13.10	2.12.20, 2.13.10	PYSEC-2026-1067