Directory Traversal Affecting babel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.72% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-BABEL-3386584
  • published23 Oct 2021
  • disclosed28 Apr 2021

Introduced: 28 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-42771  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 babel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream babel package and not the babel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Babel.Locale in Babel before 2.9.1 allows attackers to load arbitrary locale .dat files (containing serialized Python objects) via directory traversal, leading to code execution.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1