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Message-Id: <201309271257.r8RCusBJ010451@linus.mitre.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 08:56:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: seth.arnold@...onical.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: graphite CVE-2013-5903 confusion

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>However, the checkins from the project appear to use this CVE for unsafe
>use of Python's pickle module:
>
>https://github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web/blob/master/docs/releases/0_9_11.rst
>
>    This release contains several security fixes for cross-site scripting
>    (XSS) as well as a fix for a remote-execution exploit in graphite-web
>    (CVE-2013-5903).

This use of CVE-2013-5903 is a typo. The original CVE for this
disclosure was correctly entered by the researcher at:

  http://ceriksen.com/2013/08/20/graphite-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-advisory/

(Also, the original CVE was not intended to be an XSS CVE.)

The correct assignments are:

CVE-2013-5093: unsafe use of Python's pickle module in render/views.py

CVE-2013-5942: unsafe use of Python's pickle module in other 0.9.10
               files that were not mentioned in the ceriksen.com post

CVE-2013-5943: XSS, as reported in 0_9_11.rst

CVE-2013-5903: a rejected CVE - a use of this CVE could conceivably mean
               any of CVE-2013-5093, CVE-2013-5942, or CVE-2013-5943

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