CVE-2011-2520

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{"acknowledgement": "Red Hat would like to thank Marco Slaviero (SensePost) for reporting this issue.", "affected_release": [{"advisory": "RHSA-2011:0953", "cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "package": "system-config-firewall-0:1.2.27-3.el6_1.3", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6", "release_date": "2011-07-18T00:00:00Z"}, {"advisory": "RHSA-2011:0953", "cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "package": "system-config-printer-0:1.1.16-17.el6_1.2", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6", "release_date": "2011-07-18T00:00:00Z"}], "bugzilla": {"description": "system-config-firewall: privilege escalation flaw via use of python pickle", "id": "717985", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717985"}, "csaw": false, "cvss": {"cvss_base_score": "6.0", "cvss_scoring_vector": "AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C", "status": "verified"}, "cwe": "CWE-502", "details": ["fw_dbus.py in system-config-firewall 1.2.29 and earlier uses the pickle Python module unsafely during D-Bus communication between the GUI and the backend, which might allow local users to gain privileges via a crafted serialized object."], "name": "CVE-2011-2520", "public_date": "2011-07-18T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2520\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2520"], "threat_severity": "Moderate"}

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