cve-2016-3957
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-02-06 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 00:10
Severity ?
Summary
The secure_load function in gluon/utils.py in web2py before 2.14.2 uses pickle.loads to deserialize session information stored in cookies, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging knowledge of encryption_key.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://devco.re/blog/2017/01/03/web2py-unserialize-code-execution-CVE-2016-3957/Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/web2py/web2py/blob/R-2.14.1/gluon/utils.py#L200Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4030-1/
Impacted products
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