CVE-2021-42771 (GCVE-0-2021-42771)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-20 20:05 – Updated: 2024-08-04 03:38
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
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