CVE-2014-8684
CodeIgniter before 3.0 and Kohana 3.2.3 and earlier and 3.3.x through 3.3.2 make it easier for remote attackers to spoof session cookies…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 72.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
CodeIgniter before 3.0 and Kohana 3.2.3 and earlier and 3.3.x through 3.3.2 make it easier for remote attackers to spoof session cookies and consequently conduct PHP object injection attacks by leveraging use of standard string comparison operators to compare cryptographic hashes.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- Seagate Business NAS Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/http/seagate_nas_php_exec_noauthRank normaldisclosed 1 Mar 2015
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Seagate Business NAS - Remote Command Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36264remote, phppublished 4 Mar 2015Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 72.2% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistcodeigniter/frameworkGHSA-w9ph-q4h9-rwq6 (opens in a new tab)
- Packagistkohana/coreGHSA-w9ph-q4h9-rwq6 (opens in a new tab)
References
4
- https://scott.arciszewski.me/research/full/php-framework-timing-attacks-object-injection (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20140512 CodeIgniter <= 2.1.4 and Kohana <= 3.2.3, 3.3.2 - Timing Attacks and Object Injection (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/kohana/core/pull/492 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130609/Seagate-Business-NAS-Unauthenticated-Remote-Command-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-5542 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-w9ph-q4h9-rwq6 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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