PT-2026-53614 · Pypi · Swift

Published 2026-06-29 · Updated 2026-06-29

OSV

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

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.

Fix

Related Identifiers

PYSEC-2026-545

Affected Products

Swift

References · 20

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2026-545 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4406 · Security Note
• https://github.com/openstack/swift/commit/e1ff51c04554d51616d2845f92ab726cb0e5831a · Note
• https://pypi.org/project/swift · Note
• https://launchpad.net/swift/+milestone/1.7.0 · Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1379.html · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4406 · Note
• https://opendev.org/openstack/swift · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/4 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0691 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=854757 · Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0691.html · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/05/16 · Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-October/089472.html · Note
• https://web.archive.org/web/20130629092623/http://securityfocus.com/bid/55420 · Note