CVE-2023-45158

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-10-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-78

Description

An OS command injection vulnerability exists in web2py 2.24.1 and earlier. When the product is configured to use notifySendHandler for logging (not the default configuration), a crafted web request may execute an arbitrary OS command on the web server using the product.

Affected products

web2py: through 2.24.1

References

http://web2py.com/
http://web2py.com/init/default/download
https://github.com/web2py/web2py/commit/936e2260b0c34c44e2f3674a893e96d2a7fad0a3
https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN80476432/
http://web2py.com/
http://web2py.com/init/default/download
https://github.com/web2py/web2py/commit/936e2260b0c34c44e2f3674a893e96d2a7fad0a3
https://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN80476432/

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