Security Advisory

CVE-2011-4212

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2011-10-30 19:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 00:01:51
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.