CVE-2014-8684 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2017-09-19

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: 44.8% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

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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Remediation

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Advisories

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

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.

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

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Subscriptions

Codeigniter Codeigniter

Kohanaframework Kohana

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-09-19T19:00:00.000Z

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

Reserved: 2014-11-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-8684

Vulnrichment

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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

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-310

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