CVE-2013-5093

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 38.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-09-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

The renderLocalView function in render/views.py in graphite-web in Graphite 0.9.5 through 0.9.10 uses the pickle Python module unsafely, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted serialized object.

Affected products

Graphite project Graphite: 0.9.5, 0.9.6, 0.9.7, 0.9.8, 0.9.9, 0.9.10

References

http://ceriksen.com/2013/08/20/graphite-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-advisory/
http://secunia.com/advisories/54556
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27752
http://www.osvdb.org/96436
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61894
https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/blob/master/docs/releases/0_9_11.rst
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/unix/webapp/graphite_pickle_exec.rb
http://ceriksen.com/2013/08/20/graphite-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-advisory/
http://secunia.com/advisories/54556
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/27752
http://www.osvdb.org/96436
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/61894

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