CVE-2012-4406

highpriority · track · 41EPSS 0.066 · 94 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

6.57% (94th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

10 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-502USprimaryCWE-502USCWE-94US

affected products (10)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
fedoraproject fedora= 16nvdUScpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openstack swift< 1.7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:openstack:swift:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux server= 5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux server= 6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat gluster storage management console= 2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:gluster_storage_management_console:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat gluster storage server for on-premise= 2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:gluster_storage_server_for_on-premise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat storage= 2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:storage:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat storage for public cloud= 2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:storage_for_public_cloud:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI swift< 1.7.0osvUSpkg:pypi/swift

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-v7mh-3jgf-r26cOpenStack Object Storage (swift) Code Injection vulnerability2022-05-17ghsa · osvUS
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.
PYSEC-2026-545OpenStack Object Storage (swift) Code Injection vulnerability2026-06-29vendor · osvUS
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.

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2012-10-22modified 2026-06-16

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references (36)

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