[Secure-testing-team] Bug#728871: fookebox: bogus secret value in config

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Wed Nov 6 12:02:19 UTC 2013


Package: fookebox
Version: 0.6.1-2
Severity: grave
Tags: security
Justification: user security hole

Default config installed as /etc/fookebox/config.ini contains this line:

  beaker.session.secret = somesecret

According to [Pylons documentation] that secret "should be a secret,
ideally randomly generated value on production environments."


 - Jonas


[Pylons documentation]: http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pylons-webframework/en/latest/sessions.html



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