davidfraser/formencode · Security
FormEncode Access Restrictions Bypass
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-9jp4-68vc-r8wq
- CVE ID
- CVE-2008-6547
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
schema.py in FormEncode for Python (python-formencode) 1.0 does not apply the chained_validators feature, which allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via unknown vectors.
CWEs
- CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-6547 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43878 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00607.html ↗
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=91231&atid=596416&file_id=271779&aid=1925164 ↗
- http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1925164&group_id=91231&atid=596416 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20080905200034/http://secunia.com/advisories/31081 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20081013102442/http://secunia.com/advisories/31163 ↗
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200228145643/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30282 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/formencode/PYSEC-2009-5.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9jp4-68vc-r8wq ↗