CVE-2021-42771

high

Description

Babel.Locale in Babel before 2.9.1 allows attackers to load arbitrary locale .dat files (containing serialized Python objects) via directory traversal, leading to code execution.

References

https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2021-14

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5018

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2021/10/msg00040.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00018.html

https://github.com/python-babel/babel/pull/782

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-10-20

Updated: 2021-12-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H