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Information Exposure Affecting web2py package, versions [0,]

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.46% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-WEB2PY-5846246
  • published 20 Aug 2023
  • disclosed 14 May 2022
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 14 May 2022

CVE-2016-3954 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-200 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. A remote attacker can 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