PT-2015-6813 · Openstack · Openstack Swift-On-File

Siddharth Sharma · Published 2015-11-25 · Updated 2015-11-27 · CVE-2015-5242

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenStack Swift-on-File (aka Swiftonfile) (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the improper restriction of the pickle Python module when loading metadata. This allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted extended attribute (xattrs).

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-5242

RHSA-2015:1918

Affected Products

Openstack Swift-On-File

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5242 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1985893 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1918.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258743 · Vendor Advisory
• https://review.openstack.org/#/c/237994 · Note