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The commercial version supported analysis of PHP and Java code. In order to identify security vulnerabilities that are based on second-order data flows or misplaced security mechanisms, it used abstract syntax trees, control-flow graphs, and context-sensitive taint analysis [7] It could automatically detect 200 different vulnerability types, code quality issues and misconfiguration weaknesses.
A classification of SQL injection attacking vector as of 2010. In computing, SQL injection is a code injection technique used to attack data-driven applications, in which malicious SQL statements are inserted into an entry field for execution (e.g. to dump the database contents to the attacker).
An example of how you can see code injection first-hand is to use your browser's developer tools. Code injection vulnerabilities are recorded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the National Vulnerability Database as CWE-94. Code injection peaked in 2008 at 5.66% as a percentage of all recorded vulnerabilities. [4]
The current revision of the PHP manual mentions that the rationale behind magic quotes was to "help [prevent] code written by beginners from being dangerous." [ 2 ] It was however originally introduced in PHP 2 as a php.h compile-time setting for msql, only escaping single quotes, "making it easier to pass form data directly to msql queries". [ 3 ]
In software development, time-of-check to time-of-use (TOCTOU, TOCTTOU or TOC/TOU) is a class of software bugs caused by a race condition involving the checking of the state of a part of a system (such as a security credential) and the use of the results of that check.
PHP-Nuke is a web-based automated news publishing and content management system based on PHP and MySQL originally written by Francisco Burzi. The system is controlled using a web-based user interface.
The non-persistent (or reflected) cross-site scripting vulnerability is by far the most basic type of web vulnerability. [10] These holes show up when the data provided by a web client, [ 11 ] most commonly in HTTP query parameters (e.g. HTML form submission), is used immediately by server-side scripts to parse and display a page of results for ...
On its own, an arbitrary code execution exploit will give the attacker the same privileges as the target process that is vulnerable. [11] For example, if exploiting a flaw in a web browser, an attacker could act as the user, performing actions such as modifying personal computer files or accessing banking information, but would not be able to perform system-level actions (unless the user in ...