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Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting web2py package, versions [0,]

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    2.06% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-WEB2PY-5883032
  • published 6 Sep 2023
  • disclosed 14 May 2022
  • credit shaolin-tw
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Introduced: 14 May 2022

CVE-2016-3953 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-798 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 Arbitrary Code Execution via the hardcoded encryption key when calling the session.connect function.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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