CVE-2012-4406

OpenStack Swift prior to 1.7.0 is vulnerable: it uses the pickle loads function to serialize/deserialize metadata in memcached, enabling remote code execution via a crafted pickle object. Public advisories (RHSA-2012:1379) note that a fix exists but is not enabled by default; remediation involves...

CVE-2014-8177

CVE-2014-8177 affects Red Hat Gluster Storage’s OpenStack Swift component (gluster-swift). The issue allows remote authenticated users to bypass the max_meta_count constraint by issuing multiple crafted requests that cumulatively exceed the configured limit, enabling excess metadata storage. Root...