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

CVE-2010-3037

High
8.5/10

Summary

goform/websXMLAdminRequestCgi.cgi in Cisco Unified Videoconferencing (UVC) System 5110 and 5115, and possibly Unified Videoconferencing System 3545 and 5230, Unified Videoconferencing 3527 Primary Rate Interface (PRI) Gateway, Unified Videoconferencing 3522 Basic Rate Interfaces (BRI) Gateway, and Unified Videoconferencing 3515 Multipoint Control Unit (MCU), allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary commands via the username field, related to a "shell command injection vulnerability," aka Bug ID CSCti54059.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • SINGLE
  • 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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Advisory Timeline

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