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

CVE-2010-0988

Medium
6/10

Summary

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Pulse CMS before 1.2.3 allow (1) remote attackers to write to arbitrary files and execute arbitrary PHP code via vectors related to improper handling of login failures by includes/login.php; and allow remote authenticated users to write to arbitrary files and execute arbitrary PHP code via vectors involving the (2) filename and (3) block parameters to view.php.

  • 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.

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