CVE-2011-4211

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Oct 30, 2011
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: Oct 30, 2011

Description

The FakeFile implementation in the sandbox environment in the Google App Engine Python SDK before 1.5.4 does not properly control the opening of files, which allows local users to bypass intended access restrictions and create arbitrary files via ALLOWED_MODES and ALLOWED_DIRS changes within the code parameter to _ah/admin/interactive/execute, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-1364.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkReleaseNotes
google-app-fakefile-priv-esc(71064)vdb-entry
http://blog.watchfire.com/files/googleappenginesdk.pdf
50464vdb-entry

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