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

CVE-2010-1263

High
9.3/10

Summary

Windows Shell and WordPad in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP1 and SP2, Windows Server 2008 Gold, SP2, and R2, and Windows 7; Microsoft Office XP SP3; Office 2003 SP3; and Office System 2007 SP1 and SP2 do not properly validate COM objects during instantiation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file, aka "COM Validation Vulnerability."

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE
  • COMPLETE

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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