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CVE-2014-8684
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…
Critical9.8EPSS 72.2%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 72.2% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistcodeigniter/frameworkGHSA-w9ph-q4h9-rwq6 (opens in a new tab)
- Packagistkohana/coreGHSA-w9ph-q4h9-rwq6 (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://scott.arciszewski.me/research/full/php-framework-timing-attacks-object-injection (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20140512 CodeIgniter <= 2.1.4 and Kohana <= 3.2.3, 3.3.2 - Timing Attacks and Object Injection (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/kohana/core/pull/492 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130609/Seagate-Business-NAS-Unauthenticated-Remote-Command-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-w9ph-q4h9-rwq6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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