CVE-2012-4406

CRITICAL

9.8

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published10/22/2012

Last Modified4/11/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

fedoraproject:fedoraopenstack:swiftredhat:enterprise_linux_serverredhat:gluster_storage_management_consoleredhat:gluster_storage_server_for_on-premiseredhat:storageredhat:storage_for_public_cloud

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-502

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089472.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1379.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0691.html(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/16(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/4(secalert@redhat.com)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55420(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1006414(secalert@redhat.com)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854757(secalert@redhat.com)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79140(secalert@redhat.com)

https://github.com/openstack/swift/commit/e1ff51c04554d51616d2845f92ab726cb0e5831a(secalert@redhat.com)

https://launchpad.net/swift/+milestone/1.7.0(secalert@redhat.com)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089472.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1379.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0691.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/16(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/4(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55420(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1006414(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854757(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79140(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/openstack/swift/commit/e1ff51c04554d51616d2845f92ab726cb0e5831a(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://launchpad.net/swift/+milestone/1.7.0(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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