CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-5086

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

Published: Feb 10, 2020 | Modified: Sep 09, 2021
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A Command Execution vulnerability exists in Sphider Pro, and Sphider Plus 3.2 due to insufficient sanitization of fwrite to conf.php, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code. CVE-2014-5086 pertains to instances of fwrite in Sphider Pro and Sphider Plus only, but don’t exist in Sphider.

Weakness

The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Sphider Sphider * 1.3.6 (excluding)
Sphider-plus Sphider-plus * 3.2 (excluding)
Sphider_pro Sphiderpro * 3.2 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References