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Web2py Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 4, 2023

Package

pip web2py (pip)

Affected versions

<= 2.14.5

Patched versions

2.14.6

Description

Web2py versions 2.14.5 and below was affected by CSRF (Cross Site Request Forgery) vulnerability, which allows an attacker to trick a logged-in administrator into performing unwanted actions i.e An attacker can trick a victim into disable the installed application just by visiting a URL.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 11, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Aug 4, 2023
Last updated Aug 4, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.444%
(76th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-4808

GHSA ID

GHSA-gp69-xcm6-ffqj

Source code

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