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

CVE-2013-3383

Severity High
Score 9/10

Summary

The web framework in IronPort AsyncOS on Cisco Web Security Appliance devices before 7.1.3-013, 7.5 before 7.5.0-838, and 7.7 before 7.7.0-550 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via crafted command-line input in a URL sent over IPv4, aka Bug ID CSCzv69294.

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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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