VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-4212

high
Published 2011-10-30 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.2

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk{"endIncluding":"1.5.3"}
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.0.1
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.0.2
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.1.0
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.1.1
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.1.2
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.1.3
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.1.4
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.1.5
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.1.6
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.1.7
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.1.8
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.1.9
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.2.0
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.2.1
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.2.2
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.2.3
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.2.4
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.2.5
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.2.6
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.2.7
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.3.0
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.3.1
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.3.2
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.3.3
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.3.4
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.3.5
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.3.6
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.3.7
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.3.8
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.4.0
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.4.1
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.4.2
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.4.3
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.5.0
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.5.1
gcp googleapp_engine_python_sdk1.5.2

References

CWEs

CWE-264

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.