CVE-2012-3458

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-09-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

Beaker before 1.6.4, when using PyCrypto to encrypt sessions, uses AES in ECB cipher mode, which might allow remote attackers to obtain portions of sensitive session data via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Python Beaker: through 1.6.4

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/50226
http://secunia.com/advisories/50520
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2541
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/13/10
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809267
https://github.com/bbangert/beaker/commit/91becae76101cf87ce8cbfabe3af2622fc328fe5
http://secunia.com/advisories/50226
http://secunia.com/advisories/50520
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2541
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/08/13/10
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=809267
https://github.com/bbangert/beaker/commit/91becae76101cf87ce8cbfabe3af2622fc328fe5

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