CVE Database · CVE-2015-5242
CVSS v3.1
N/A
EPSS
2.23%
Published
Nov 25, 2015
Modified
May 6, 2026
Public PoC / Exploit
All weaponized →No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.
Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
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).
Weaknesses (CWE)
Affected Products (1)
References (8)