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A file inclusion vulnerability is a type of web vulnerability that is most commonly found to affect web applications that rely on a scripting run time.This issue is caused when an application builds a path to executable code using an attacker-controlled variable in a way that allows the attacker to control which file is executed at run time.
Trojan Source is a software vulnerability that abuses Unicode's bidirectional characters to display source code differently than the actual execution of the source code. [1] The exploit utilizes how writing scripts of different reading directions are displayed and encoded on computers.
Source code viruses are a subset of computer viruses that make modifications to source code located on an infected machine. A source file can be overwritten such that it includes a call to some malicious code. By targeting a generic programming language, such as C, source code viruses can be very portable. Source code viruses are rare, partly ...
Here, the code under attack is the code that is trying to check the parameter, the very code that might have been trying to validate the parameter to defend against an attack. [20] Any function that can be used to compose and run a shell command is a potential vehicle for launching a shell injection attack.
In a return-into-library attack, an attacker hijacks program control flow by exploiting a buffer overrun vulnerability, exactly as discussed above. Instead of attempting to write an attack payload onto the stack, the attacker instead chooses an available library function and overwrites the return address with its entry location.
In a clickjacking attack, the user is presented with a false interface, where their input is applied to something they cannot see. Clickjacking (classified as a user interface redress attack or UI redressing) is a malicious technique of tricking a user into clicking on something different from what the user perceives, thus potentially revealing confidential information or allowing others to ...
Many NIST publications define risk in IT context in different publications: FISMApedia [9] term [10] provide a list. Between them: According to NIST SP 800-30: [11] Risk is a function of the likelihood of a given threat-source’s exercising a particular potential vulnerability, and the resulting impact of that adverse event on the organization.
The Xen hypervisor project released patches to mitigate the vulnerability but they are not enabled by default. [73] Also in March 2024, a vulnerability in Intel Atom processors called Register File Data Sampling (RFDS) was revealed. [74] It was assigned CVE-2023-28746. Its mitigations incur a slight performance degradation. [75]