CVE-2016-3957

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3957
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3957.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-3957
Downstream
Published
2018-02-06T18:29:00.400Z
Modified
2026-08-07T14:49:21.938600Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The secureload function in gluon/utils.py in web2py before 2.14.2 uses pickle.loads to deserialize session information stored in cookies, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging knowledge of encryptionkey.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/web2py/web2py

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/web2py/web2py
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
32650f0cbf2c0211195e792a219899f74856b73e
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:web2py:web2py:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2.14.2"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

R-2.*
R-2.10.1
R-2.10.2
R-2.10.3
R-2.10.4
R-2.10.4.beta
R-2.11.1
R-2.11.2
R-2.12.1
R-2.12.2
R-2.12.3
R-2.13.1
R-2.13.2
R-2.13.3
R-2.13.4
R-2.14.1
R-2.4.2
R-2.4.3
R-2.4.4
R-2.4.5
R-2.4.6
R-2.4.7
R-2.5.1
R-2.6.1
R-2.6.2
R-2.6.3
R-2.6.4
R-2.7.1
R-2.7.2
R-2.7.3
R-2.7.4
R-2.8.1
R-2.8.2
R-2.9.10
R-2.9.11
R-2.9.12
R-2.9.2
R-2.9.3
R-2.9.4
R-2.9.5
R-2.9.6
R-2.9.7
R-2.9.8
R-2.9.9

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3957.json"