PT-2006-7231 · Webwork · Webwork

Published 2006-12-18 · Updated 2011-03-08 · CVE-2006-6629

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WeBWorK versions prior to 2.3.1

Description The issue arises from an insufficiently restrictive regular expression used to determine valid macro filenames in the lib/WeBWorK/PG/Translator.pm file. This allows attackers to load arbitrary macro files whose names contain specific strings, including dangerousMacros.pl, PG.pl, or IO.pl.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.3.1, update to version 2.3.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-6629

Affected Products

Webwork

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6629 · Security Note
• http://devel.webwork.rochester.edu/twiki/bin/view/Webwork/PGLanguageRelease2pt3pt1 · Patch
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/21614 · Patch
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5026 · Note