CVE-2015-5242

Red Hat Gluster Storage - Authenticated Remote Code Execution via Pickle Deserialization in Swift-on-File Metadata

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

OpenStack Swift-on-File (aka Swiftonfile) does not properly restrict use of the pickle Python module when loading metadata, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted extended attribute (xattrs).

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258743
Various Sources x_refsource_confirm
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/237994/
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1918.html
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1985893

Scores

EPSS 0.0223
EPSS Percentile 80.5%

Details

CWE
CWE-94
Status published
Products (1)
redhat/gluster_storage 3.1
Published Nov 25, 2015
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026