CVE-2016-3954: WEB2PY

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• WEB2PY WEB2PY: before 2.14.2 (fixed in 2.14.2)

Published 2018-02-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.