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CVE-2016-10321

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-254

Description

web2py before 2.14.6 does not properly check if a host is denied before verifying passwords, allowing a remote attacker to perform brute-force attacks.

Affected products

• web2py: through 2.14.5

References

• https://github.com/web2py/web2py/commit/944d8bd8f3c5cf8ae296fc03d149056c65358426
• https://github.com/web2py/web2py/issues/1585#issuecomment-284317919
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4030-1/
• https://github.com/web2py/web2py/commit/944d8bd8f3c5cf8ae296fc03d149056c65358426
• https://github.com/web2py/web2py/issues/1585#issuecomment-284317919
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4030-1/

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