PT-2018-4910 · Web2Py+1 · Web2Py+1

Shaolin · Published 2018-02-06 · Updated 2022-05-14 · CVE-2016-3954

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions web2py versions prior to 2.14.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain the session cookie key value via a direct request to "examples/simple examples/status". This can be leveraged to execute arbitrary code.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.14.2, update to version 2.14.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the "examples/simple examples/status" endpoint until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-3954

GHSA-JR83-VR4J-MP6P

USN-4030-1

Affected Products

Ubuntu

Web2Py

References · 16

• 🔥 https://devco.re/blog/2017/01/03/web2py-unserialize-code-execution-CVE-2016-3957 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-3954 · Vendor Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4030-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3954 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4030-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3954 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-4030-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3957 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3954 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-jr83-vr4j-mp6p · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3954 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3952 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10321 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-3953 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/web2py/web2py · Note