CVE-2012-4406
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · Insecure deserialization
9.8CVSS CRITICAL
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)7%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1006414 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/swift/+bug/1006414Patch
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854757Patch
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089472.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1379.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0691.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/16
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/4
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55420