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CVE-2012-4406

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Dat
Publication date:
22/10/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.80 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
9.80
Severity 3.x
CRITICAL
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:openstack:swift:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.7.0 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:gluster_storage_management_console:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:gluster_storage_server_for_on-premise:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:storage:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:storage_for_public_cloud:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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


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