CVE-2014-1604

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-01-28 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The parser cache functionality in parsergenerator.py in RPLY (aka python-rply) before 0.7.1 allows local users to spoof cache data by pre-creating a temporary rply-*.json file with a predictable name.

Affected products

Python Rply: through 0.7.0

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=735263
http://secunia.com/advisories/56429
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/17/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/18/4
http://www.osvdb.org/102202
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90593
https://github.com/alex/rply/commit/fc9bbcd25b0b4f09bbd6339f710ad24c129d5d7c
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=735263
http://secunia.com/advisories/56429
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/17/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/18/4
http://www.osvdb.org/102202

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