CVE-2012-3458
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 2.5%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-310
- EPSS score
- 2.5% (85th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-0002)
- Published
- September 15, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-0002 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- python / beaker
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50226(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50520(Vendor Advisory)
- 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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