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CVE-2011-4212

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control
Publication date:
30/10/2011
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

The sandbox environment in the Google App Engine Python SDK before 1.5.4 does not properly prevent os.popen calls, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and execute arbitrary commands via a dev_appserver.RestrictedPathFunction._original_os reference within the code parameter to _ah/admin/interactive/execute, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1364.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.20
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:google:app_engine_python_sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.5.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:google:app_engine_python_sdk:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:app_engine_python_sdk:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:app_engine_python_sdk:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:app_engine_python_sdk:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:app_engine_python_sdk:1.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:app_engine_python_sdk:1.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:app_engine_python_sdk:1.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:app_engine_python_sdk:1.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:app_engine_python_sdk:1.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:app_engine_python_sdk:1.1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:app_engine_python_sdk:1.1.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:app_engine_python_sdk:1.1.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:app_engine_python_sdk:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:google:app_engine_python_sdk:1.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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