cve/2016/CVE-2016-3954.md

### [CVE-2016-3954](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-3954)
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### Description

web2py before 2.14.2 allows remote attackers to obtain the session_cookie_key value via a direct request to examples/simple_examples/status.  NOTE: this issue can be leveraged by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code using CVE-2016-3957.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://devco.re/blog/2017/01/03/web2py-unserialize-code-execution-CVE-2016-3957/

#### Github
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