CVE-2014-8684 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

CodeIgniter before 3.0 and Kohana 3.2.3 and earlier and 3.3.x through 3.3.2 make it easier for remote attackers to spoof session cookies and consequently conduct PHP object injection attacks by leveraging use of standard string comparison operators to compare cryptographic hashes.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.44845.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Codeigniter	Codeigniter
Kohanaframework	Kohana

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:codeigniter:codeigniter::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:kohanaframework:kohana:3.2.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:kohanaframework:kohana:3.3.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:kohanaframework:kohana:3.3.1:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Github GHSA	GHSA-w9ph-q4h9-rwq6	CodeIgniter and Kohana vulnerable to PHP Object Injection

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130609/Seagate-Business-NAS-Unauthenticated-Remote-Command-Execution.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/May/54
https://github.com/kohana/core/pull/492
https://scott.arciszewski.me/research/full/php-framework-timing-attacks-object-injection

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-09-19T19:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:26:02.543Z

Reserved: 2014-11-09T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-8684

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-09-19T19:29:00.203

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2014-8684

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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