Skip to main content

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

CVE-2009-0674

Medium
6/10

Summary

images/captcha.php in Raven Web Services RavenNuke 2.30, when register_globals and display_errors are enabled, allows remote attackers to determine the existence of local files by sending requests with full pathnames in the aFonts array parameter, and then observing the error messages, which differ between existing and nonexistent pathnames.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • SINGLE
  • 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.

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published