CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-6629
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-12-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• webwork program generation language (<= 2.3)
Related
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-625 Permissive Regular Expression weakness
References
- http://devel.webwork.rochester.edu/twiki/bin/view/Webwork/PGLanguageRelease2pt3pt1 Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21614 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5026 www.vupen.com
- http://devel.webwork.rochester.edu/twiki/bin/view/Webwork/PGLanguageRelease2pt3pt1 Patch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21614 Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5026 www.vupen.com