Kurt Seifried and Vasyl Kaigorodov of Red Hat Product Security report:

So while I was looking through the source I spotted a flaw, Vasyl confirmed it

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python rope
http://rope.sourceforge.net/
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rope
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pickle.load of remotely supplied data with no auth, RCE

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rope/base/oi/doa.py
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class _SocketReceiver(_MessageReceiver):
def receive_data(self):
conn, addr = self.server_socket.accept()
self.server_socket.close()
my_file = conn.makefile('r')
while True:
try:
yield pickle.load(my_file)
except EOFError:
break
my_file.close()
conn.close()


class PythonFileRunner(object):
def _init_data_receiving(self):
if self.analyze_data is None:
return
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if True or os.name == 'nt':
self.receiver = _SocketReceiver()

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/rope/base/pycore.py
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class PyCore(object):
def run_module(self, resource, args=None, stdin=None, stdout=None):
"""Run `resource` module

Returns a `rope.base.oi.doa.PythonFileRunner` object for
controlling the process.

"""
perform_doa = self.project.prefs.get('perform_doi', True)
perform_doa = self.project.prefs.get('perform_doa', perform_doa)
receiver = self.object_info.doa_data_received
if not perform_doa:
receiver = None
runner = rope.base.oi.doa.PythonFileRunner(
self, resource, args, stdin, stdout, receiver)
runner.add_finishing_observer(self.module_cache.forget_all_data)
runner.run()
return runner
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Vasyl Kaigorodov (coworker) then confirmed it was network reachable:

Confirmed:

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import rope.base.pycore
import rope.base.project

myproject = rope.base.project.Project('.')
res = myproject.get_resource("mod2.py")
myproject.pycore.run_module(res)
...

When run_module() executed - rope really opens a port:
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tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:3037            0.0.0.0:*
LISTEN      31234/python
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and I was able to easily send some "pickled" python code to it (using
nc), which then was executed.
The window of opportunity is really small though (around 0.8 second
for a 2kb file):
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17:00:53.432052 IP localhost.59128 > localhost.hp-san-mgmt: Flags [S],
seq 3302699683, win 43690, options [mss 65495,sackOK,TS val 533783316
ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0
17:00:53.432075 IP localhost.hp-san-mgmt > localhost.59128: Flags
[S.], seq 3571033229, ack 3302699684, win 43690, options [mss
65495,sackOK,TS val 533783316 ecr 533783316,nop,wscale 7], length 0
17:00:53.432088 IP localhost.59128 > localhost.hp-san-mgmt: Flags [.],
ack 1, win 342, options [nop,nop,TS val 533783316 ecr 533783316], length 0
17:00:54.198028 IP localhost.59128 > localhost.hp-san-mgmt: Flags
[P.], seq 1:2230, ack 1, win 342, options [nop,nop,TS val 533784082
ecr 533783316], length 2229
17:00:54.198055 IP localhost.59128 > localhost.hp-san-mgmt: Flags
[F.], seq 2230, ack 1, win 342, options [nop,nop,TS val 533784082 ecr
533783316], length 0
17:00:54.198055 IP localhost.hp-san-mgmt > localhost.59128: Flags [.],
ack 2230, win 1012, options [nop,nop,TS val 533784082 ecr 533784082],
length 0
17:00:54.211353 IP localhost.hp-san-mgmt > localhost.59128: Flags
[F.], seq 1, ack 2231, win 1024, options [nop,nop,TS val 533784096 ecr
533784082], length 0
17:00:54.211378 IP localhost.59128 > localhost.hp-san-mgmt: Flags [.],
ack 2, win 342, options [nop,nop,TS val 533784096 ecr 533784096], length 0
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Also according to the rope code (base/oi/doa.py, lines 113-117) , if
port 3037 is taken already - rope will try to bind to 3038, 3039 and
so on - so there's even no 100% guarantee that the port will be static.