{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_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"
  },
  "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." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Marco Slaviero (SensePost) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "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-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"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2520\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2520" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2011-2520",
  "csaw" : false
}