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CVE-2023-45158
An OS command injection vulnerability exists in web2py 2.24.1 and earlier. When the product is configured to use notifySendHandler for…
Critical9.8EPSS 4.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- jpcert
Description
An OS command injection vulnerability exists in web2py 2.24.1 and earlier. When the product is configured to use notifySendHandler for logging (not the default configuration), a crafted web request may execute an arbitrary OS command on the web server using the product.
Timeline
ID reserved
By jpcert
- 12 days later
· 12 days later
Published
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.4% · top 8.6% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
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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
- OS command injection
- CWE-78 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-78 and its CVEs
Affected products
References (4)
- http://web2py.com/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://web2py.com/init/default/download (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/web2py/web2py/commit/936e2260b0c34c44e2f3674a893e96d2a7fad0a3 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN80476432/ (opens in a new tab)x_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 Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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