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CVE-2012-4406

Date: October 22, 2012

OpenStack Object Storage (swift) before 1.7.0 uses the loads function in the pickle Python module unsafely when storing and loading metadata in memcached, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted pickle object.

Language: Python

Severity Score

Related Resources (18)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854757
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0691
https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1006414
https://opendev.org/openstack/swift
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089472.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79140
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1379
https://web.archive.org/web/20130629092623/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55420
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4406
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1379.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/4
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55420
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/16
https://launchpad.net/swift/+milestone/1.7.0
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0691.html
https://github.com/openstack/swift/commit/e1ff51c04554d51616d2845f92ab726cb0e5831a
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4406
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-4406

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Code Injection

CWE-94

Deserialization of Untrusted Data

CWE-502

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): HIGH
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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