Vulnerability in Webwork Program Generation Language
CVE-2006-6629
lib/WeBWorK/PG/Translator.pm in WeBWorK Program Generation (PG) Language before 2.3.1 uses an insufficiently restrictive regular expression to determine valid macro filenames, which allows attackers to load arbitrary macro files whose names contain the strings (1) dangerousMacros.pl, (2) PG.pl, or (3) IO.pl.
EPSS: 0.012 (64.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Webwork Program_generation_language
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)