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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

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

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-WEB2PY-5883032
  • published6 Sept 2023
  • disclosed14 May 2022
  • creditshaolin-tw

Introduced: 14 May 2022

CVE-2016-3953  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-798  (opens 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