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Fencer Intel
medium 6.8

CVE-2013-7489 json

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Beaker

published 2020-06-26 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-3cwm-7jmm-774w , PYSEC-2020-216 , EUVD-2020-0051

cvss
6.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Beaker library through 1.11.0 for Python is affected by deserialization of untrusted data, which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-7489 updated cvss 5.7

python-beaker: Deserialization of Untrusted Data which can lead to Arbitrary code execution

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 python-beaker
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 python-beaker
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.2 AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi beaker
<=1.11.0
all versions
 no fix listed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.