CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-3954
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
web2py before 2.14.2 allows remote attackers to obtain the session_cookie_key value via a direct request to examples/simple_examples/status. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code using CVE-2016-3957.
Affected configurations
• web2py web2py (< 2.14.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- https://devco.re/blog/2017/01/03/web2py-unserialize-code-execution-CVE-2016-3957/ Exploit, Technical Description, 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://usn.ubuntu.com/4030-1/ usn.ubuntu.com