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SCA: security update for codeigniter/framework, kohana/core (GHSA-w9ph-q4h9-rwq6)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 437298

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2014-8684)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w9ph-q4h9-rwq6

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 437298

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/28/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-8684

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/12/2014

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Seagate Business NAS Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8684

BID: 67338