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Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

CVE-2016-15007

Severity Medium
Score 5.5/10

Summary

A vulnerability was found in Centralized-Salesforce-Dev-Framework. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is the function SObjectService of the file src/classes/SObjectService.cls of the component SOQL Handler. The manipulation of the argument orderDirection leads to injection. The patch is named db03ac5b8a9d830095991b529c067a030a0ccf7b. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217195.

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  • ADJACENT_NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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CWE-74 - Injection

Listed as the number one web application security risk on the 'OWASP Top Ten', injection attacks are widespread and dangerous, especially in legacy applications. Injection attacks are a class of vulnerabilities in which an attacker injects untrusted data into a web application that gets processed by an interpreter, altering the program's execution. This can result in data loss/theft, loss of data integrity, denial of service, and even compromising the entire system.

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Advisory Timeline

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