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SCA: security update for swift (GHSA-v7mh-3jgf-r26c)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 419163

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - OpenStack Object Storage (swift) before 1.7.0 uses the loads function in the pickle Python module unsafely
 when storing and loading metadata in memcached, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code
 via a crafted pickle object. (CVE-2012-4406)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v7mh-3jgf-r26c

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 419163

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-4406

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/30/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4406

BID: 55420