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CodeIgniter and Kohana vulnerable to PHP Object Injection

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 17, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 16, 2023

Package

composer codeigniter/framework (Composer)

Affected versions

< 3.0.0

Patched versions

3.0.0
composer kohana/core (Composer)
< 3.3.3
3.3.3

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 19, 2017
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 17, 2022
Reviewed Aug 16, 2023
Last updated Aug 16, 2023

Severity

Critical
9.8
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2014-8684

GHSA ID

GHSA-w9ph-q4h9-rwq6

Source code

No known source code
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