CVE-2014-8686 (GCVE-0-2014-8686)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-19 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:26
VLAI
Summary
CodeIgniter before 2.2.0 makes it easier for attackers to decode session cookies by leveraging fallback to a custom XOR-based encryption scheme when the Mcrypt extension for PHP is not available.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2014-06-05 00:00
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