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

CVE-2007-6396

High
7.5/10

Summary

Direct static code injection vulnerability in index.php in Flat PHP Board 1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary PHP code via the (1) username, (2) password, and (3) email parameters when registering a user account, which can be executed by accessing the user's php file for this account. NOTE: similar code injection might be possible in a user profile.

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  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
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  • 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

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