CVE-2016-3957 (GCVE-0-2016-3957)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-02-06 18:00
Modified
2024-08-06 00:10
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
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.
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