CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-42771
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-10-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
Babel.Locale in Babel before 2.9.1 allows attackers to load arbitrary locale .dat files (containing serialized Python objects) via directory traversal, leading to code execution.
Affected configurations
• pocoo babel (< 2.9.1)
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://github.com/python-babel/babel/pull/782 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00018.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2021/10/msg00040.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5018 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2021-14 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/python-babel/babel/pull/782 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00018.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2021/10/msg00040.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5018 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.tenable.com/security/research/tra-2021-14 Exploit, Third Party Advisory