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CVE-2009-5014

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-11-06 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-310

Description

The default quickstart configuration of TurboGears2 (aka tg2) before 2.0.2 has a weak cookie salt, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass repoze.who authentication via a forged authorization cookie, a related issue to CVE-2010-3852.

Affected products

• Turbogears2: through 2.1b2; 1.9.7a2, 1.9.7a3, 1.9.7a4, 1.9.7b1, 1.9.7b2, 2.0-rc1 (+12)

References

• http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-announce/msg/09ec26696b1761bb?dmode=source&output=gplain
• http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-announce/msg/09ec26696b1761bb?dmode=source&output=gplain

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