CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-3953
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-798
Description
The sample web application in web2py before 2.14.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving use of a hardcoded encryption key when calling the session.connect function.
Affected configurations
• web2py web2py (< 2.14.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-798 Use of Hard-coded Credentials weakness
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/blob/R-2.14.1/applications/examples/models/session.py 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/blob/R-2.14.1/applications/examples/models/session.py Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4030-1/ usn.ubuntu.com