CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-4212
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-10-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The sandbox environment in the Google App Engine Python SDK before 1.5.4 does not properly prevent os.popen calls, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and execute arbitrary commands via a dev_appserver.RestrictedPathFunction._original_os reference within the code parameter to _ah/admin/interactive/execute, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1364.
Affected configurations
• google app engine python sdk (<= 1.5.3)
• google app engine python sdk 1.0.1
• google app engine python sdk 1.0.2
• google app engine python sdk 1.1.0
• google app engine python sdk 1.1.1
• google app engine python sdk 1.1.2
• google app engine python sdk 1.1.3
• google app engine python sdk 1.1.4
• google app engine python sdk 1.1.5
• google app engine python sdk 1.1.6
• google app engine python sdk 1.1.7
• google app engine python sdk 1.1.8
• google app engine python sdk 1.1.9
• google app engine python sdk 1.2.0
• google app engine python sdk 1.2.1
• google app engine python sdk 1.2.2
• google app engine python sdk 1.2.3
• google app engine python sdk 1.2.4
• google app engine python sdk 1.2.5
• google app engine python sdk 1.2.6
• google app engine python sdk 1.2.7
• google app engine python sdk 1.3.0
• google app engine python sdk 1.3.1
• google app engine python sdk 1.3.2
• google app engine python sdk 1.3.3
• google app engine python sdk 1.3.4
• google app engine python sdk 1.3.5
• google app engine python sdk 1.3.6
• google app engine python sdk 1.3.7
• google app engine python sdk 1.3.8
• google app engine python sdk 1.4.0
• google app engine python sdk 1.4.1
• google app engine python sdk 1.4.2
• google app engine python sdk 1.4.3
• google app engine python sdk 1.5.0
• google app engine python sdk 1.5.1
• google app engine python sdk 1.5.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://blog.watchfire.com/files/googleappenginesdk.pdf Exploit
- http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkReleaseNotes Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71063 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://blog.watchfire.com/files/googleappenginesdk.pdf Exploit
- http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkReleaseNotes Patch
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/71063 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com