Title: Webware WebKit Cookie String Command Execution Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Webware is an application suite which provides tools for development of web-based applications. It is implemented in Python.
Webware ships with a component entitled WebKit that provides Python classes for dynamically generating web server content.
The Webware WebKit component is prone to a vulnerability that may allow for execution of malicious commands. This issue is due to usage of SmartCookie, which is provided in the CookieEngine module. SmartCookie will attempt to unpickle malicious client-supplied cookie strings. This could result in the Python pickle module executing malicious code contained in cookie-strings.
A remote attacker could potentially exploit this issue to execute malicious commands with the privileges of the software.
Affected Products:
- Webware Webware 0.7.0
- Webware Webware 0.8.0
- Webware Webware 0.8.0b3
References:
- Webware: Webware Homepage
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