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Ubuntu: USN-4030-1 (CVE-2016-3954): web2py vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4030-1 (CVE-2016-3954): web2py vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/06/2018
Created
06/25/2019
Added
06/22/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

web2py before 2.14.2 allows remote attackers to 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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-gluon
  • ubuntu-upgrade-python-web2py

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