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

CVE-2009-0759

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in webadmin in ZNC before 0.066 allow remote authenticated users to modify the znc.conf configuration file and gain privileges via CRLF sequences in the quit message and other vectors.

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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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