4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2012-3458

Published: 15/09/2012 Updated: 17/09/2012
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

Beaker prior to 1.6.4, when using PyCrypto to encrypt sessions, uses AES in ECB cipher mode, which might allow remote malicious users to obtain portions of sensitive session data via unspecified vectors.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #684890 CVE-2012-3458: Information disclosure Package: beaker; Maintainer for beaker is Debian Python Modules Team <python-modules-team@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutilorg> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:00:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security Fixed in versi ...
It was discovered that Beaker, a cache and session library for Python, when using the python-crypto backend, is vulnerable to information disclosure due to a cryptographic weakness related to the use of the AES cipher in ECB mode Systems that have the python-pycryptopp package should not be vulnerable, as this backend is preferred over python-cryp ...