Information Exposure Affecting beaker package, versions [0.5,1.6.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-BEAKER-40102
  • published15 Sept 2012
  • disclosed15 Sept 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Sep 2012

CVE-2012-3458  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-310  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade beaker to version 1.6.4 or higher.

Overview

beaker is a Session and Caching library with WSGI Middleware Beaker before 1.6.4, when using PyCrypto to encrypt sessions, uses AES in ECB cipher mode, which might allow remote attackers to obtain portions of sensitive session data via unspecified vectors.

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