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Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 22, 2012· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2012-4406

CVE-2012-4406

Description

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.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
swiftPyPI
< 1.7.01.7.0

Affected products

9

Patches

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