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USN-2704-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7960)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2015-08-06 03:15 – Updated: 2026-02-10 04:40 – Source website
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Summary
swift vulnerabilities
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Rajaneesh Singh discovered Swift does not properly enforce metadata limits. An attacker could abuse this issue to store more metadata than allowed by policy. (CVE-2014-7960)

Clay Gerrard discovered Swift allowed users to delete the latest version of object regardless of object permissions when allow_version is configured. An attacker could use this issue to delete objects. (CVE-2015-1856)

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  "id": "USN-2704-1",
  "modified": "2026-02-10T04:40:55Z",
  "published": "2015-08-06T03:15:17Z",
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