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

CVE-2010-3909

Medium
6/10

Summary

Incomplete blacklist vulnerability in config.template.php in vtiger CRM before 5.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by using the draft save feature in the Compose Mail component to upload a file with a .phtml extension, and then accessing this file via a direct request to the file in the storage/ directory tree.

  • 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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