Security Advisory

CVE-2016-3957

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2018-02-06 18:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 00:10:31
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The secure_load 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 encryption_key.