CVE-2014-3539

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-04-06 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

base/oi/doa.py in the Rope library in CPython (aka Python) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging an unsafe call to pickle.load.

Affected products

Rope Project Rope: before 0.11.0 — fixed in 0.11.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Rope Project Rope 0.11.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/07/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1116485
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/07/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1116485

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