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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.37% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-BEAKER-40102
  • published 15 Sep 2012
  • disclosed 15 Sep 2012
  • credit Unknown

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

4.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

4.3 medium
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Red Hat

4.8 medium