CVE-2017-5524
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2017-03-23
- WeaknessCWE-134
Am I affected?
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Description
Plone 4.x through 4.3.11 and 5.x through 5.0.6 allow remote attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism and obtain sensitive information by leveraging the Python string format method.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2017-03-2316:59CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 21:37 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2017-5524?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2017-5524?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD · OSV| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | = 4.0 | no fix published | NVD |
| 4.0 | = 4.0.1 | no fix published | NVD |
| 4.0 | = 4.0.2 | no fix published | NVD |
| 4.0 | = 4.0.3 | no fix published | NVD |
| 4.0 | = 4.0.4 | no fix published | NVD |
| 4.0 | = 4.0.5 | no fix published | NVD |
| 4.0 | = 4.0.7 | no fix published | NVD |
| 4.0 | = 4.0.8 | no fix published | NVD |
| 4.0 | = 4.0.9 | no fix published | NVD |
| 4.0 | = 4.0.10 | no fix published | NVD |
| 4.1 | = 4.1 | no fix published | NVD |
| 4.1 | = 4.1.1 | no fix published | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | ≥ 5.1a1, < 5.1b1 | 5.1b1 | OSV |
| 5.0 | ≥ 5.0a1, < 5.0.7 | 5.0.7 | OSV |
| 5.0 | ≥ 5.0rc1, < 5.0.7 | 5.0.7 | OSV |
| 4.3 | < 4.3.12 | 4.3.12 | OSV |
| 4.x | ≥ 4.0, < 4.3.12 | 4.3.12 | OSV |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Fix
Advisories and patches
- www.openwall.comPatch
- plone.orgVendor Advisory
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
- NVDCVSS 3.04.3read 2026-10-23
- NVDCVSS 2.04read 2026-10-23
- NVDweakness (CWE)CWE-134read 2026-10-23
- FIRST EPSSEPSS score1.9 %2026-10-23
- OSVaffected packages—
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Published
- 2017-03-23
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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