vulnerability

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
Feb 6, 2018
Added
Jun 22, 2019
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-python-gluonubuntu-upgrade-python-web2py
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