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CVE-2015-5242

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-11-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

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).

Affected products

• Red Hat, Inc. Gluster Storage for RHEL 6: 3.1

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1918.html
• https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1985893
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258743
• https://review.openstack.org/#/c/237994/
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1918.html
• https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1985893
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1258743
• https://review.openstack.org/#/c/237994/

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