CVE-2012-4406

Description

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.

References

https://launchpad.net/swift/+milestone/1.7.0

https://github.com/openstack/swift/commit/e1ff51c04554d51616d2845f92ab726cb0e5831a

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79140

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854757

https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1006414

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/4

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/16

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0691.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1379.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089472.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3