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

CVE-2010-4410

Severity Medium
Score 4.3/10

Summary

CRLF Injection vulnerability in the header function in CGI before 3.50 and "Simple.pm" in CGI::Simple before 1.113 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP Response Splitting attacks via vectors related to non-whitespace characters preceded by newline characters, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2761 and CVE-2010-3172.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • NONE
  • NONE

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.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published