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

CVE-2007-1472

Medium
6.8/10

Summary

Variable overwrite vulnerability in groupit/base/groupit.start.inc in Groupit 2.00b5 allows remote attackers to conduct remote file inclusion attacks and execute arbitrary PHP code via arguments that are written to $_GLOBALS, as demonstrated using a URL in the c_basepath parameter to (1) content.php, (2) userprofile.php, (3) password.php, (4) dispatch.php, and (5) deliver.php in html/, and possibly (6) load.inc.php and related files.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL

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