CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-3952
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Description
web2py before 2.14.1, when using the standalone version, allows remote attackers to obtain environment variable values via a direct request to examples/template_examples/beautify. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged by remote attackers to gain administrative access.
Affected configurations
• web2py web2py (< 2.14.1)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- https://devco.re/blog/2017/01/03/web2py-unserialize-code-execution-CVE-2016-3957/ Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/web2py/web2py/commit/9706d125b42481178d2b423de245f5d2faadbf40 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4030-1/ usn.ubuntu.com
- https://devco.re/blog/2017/01/03/web2py-unserialize-code-execution-CVE-2016-3957/ Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/web2py/web2py/commit/9706d125b42481178d2b423de245f5d2faadbf40 Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4030-1/ usn.ubuntu.com