Bug 1850105 (CVE-2013-7489) - CVE-2013-7489 python-beaker: Deserialization of Untrusted Data which can lead to Arbitrary code execution
Summary: CVE-2013-7489 python-beaker: Deserialization of Untrusted Data which can lea...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2013-7489
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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: 1849014 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 1850106 1852679
Blocks: 1850107
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Reported: 2020-06-23 14:40 UTC by Michael Kaplan
Modified: 2021-11-01 17:13 UTC (History)
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A flaw was found in python-beaker, where it is affected by the deserialization of untrusted data. This flaw allows an attacker to enter malicious payloads into the cache database (for example, if they are on the network and have credentials for the database), to perform remote code execution on the machine running Beaker, due to the deserialization of data from the cache database by Pickle.
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Last Closed: 2021-11-01 17:13:34 UTC
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Description Michael Kaplan 2020-06-23 14:40:09 UTC 
python-beaker is affected by Deserialization of untrusted data which could lead to Arbitrary code execution.

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https://github.com/bbangert/beaker/issues/191
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/14/11
Comment 1 Michael Kaplan 2020-06-23 14:40:23 UTC 
Created python-beaker tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1850106]
Comment 8 Riccardo Schirone 2020-06-30 10:00:24 UTC 
*** Bug 1849014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Todd Cullum 2020-06-30 18:52:35 UTC 
Flaw summary:
If an attacker is able to enter malicious payloads into the cache database (e.g. if they are on the network and have creds for the database), they could get remote code execution on the machine running Beaker due to deserialization of data from the cache database by Pickle.
Comment 11 Todd Cullum 2020-06-30 18:57:14 UTC 
Mitigation:

Implementing proper access control on the Beaker cache database, to prevent unauthorized writes into the database, will mitigate exploitation of this flaw. This flaw also cannot be triggered if the Cache functionality of Beaker is not used. When using the Session feature of Beaker, use the signing functionality to verify the integrity of the data retrieved from the database before deserialization.
Comment 13 Todd Cullum 2020-07-01 04:52:32 UTC 
There is not yet a patch for this but the maintainer has suggested implementing signing of the cache data upon commit to the database to be verified upon retrieval.
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