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Fencer Intel
critical 9.8

CVE-2014-3137 json

Bottle does not properly limit content-types

published 2014-10-25 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-873q-wpqr-xfgw , PYSEC-2014-77 , EUVD-2014-0004

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.1%
EPSS 3.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Bottle 0.10.x before 0.10.12, 0.11.x before 0.11.7, and 0.12.x before 0.12.6 does not properly limit content types, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via an accepted Content-Type followed by a ; (semi-colon) and a Content-Type that would not be accepted, as demonstrated in YouCompleteMe to execute arbitrary code.

Patch / fix

  • pypi bottle 0.10.12, 0.11.7, 0.12.6
  • python-bottle Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.12.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3137

  • python-bottle Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 0.12.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3137

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-3137 updated cvss 6.4

python-bottle: JSON content-type not restrictive enough

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi bottle
>=0.10.0, <0.10.12
>=0.11.0, <0.11.7
>=0.12.0, <0.12.6
>=0.8, <0.10.12
>=0.11, <0.11.7
>=0.12, <0.12.6
0.10.12
0.11.7
0.12.6

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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