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

CVE-2005-0679

Severity High
Score 7.5/10

Summary

PHP remote file inclusion vulnerability in tell_a_friend.inc.php for Tell A Friend Script 2.7 before 20050305 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by modifying the script_root parameter to reference a URL on a remote web server that contains the code. NOTE: it was later reported that 2.4 is also affected.

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  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
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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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