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Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CVE-2014-8677

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

The installation process for SOPlanning 1.32 and earlier allows remote authenticated users with a prepared database, and access to an existing database with a crafted name, or permissions to create arbitrary databases, or if PHP before 5.2 is being used, the configuration database is down, and smarty/templates_c is not writable to execute arbitrary php code via a crafted database name.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-94 - Code Injection

Code injection is a type of vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability fully compromises the machine and can cause a wide variety of security issues, such as unauthorized access to sensitive information, manipulation of data, denial of service attacks etc. Code injection is different from command injection in the fact that it is limited by the functionality of the injected language (e.g. PHP), as opposed to command injection, which leverages existing code to execute commands, usually within the context of a shell.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published