OWASP Top Ten 2004 Category A6 - Injection Flaws

A category in the Common Weakness Enumeration published by The MITRE Corporation.

  • Source

    CWE Catalog - 4.3

  • Identifier

    CWE-727

  • Status

    Obsolete

Contents

Summary

Categories in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) group entries based on some common characteristic or attribute.

Weaknesses in this category are related to the A6 category in the OWASP Top Ten 2004.

Weaknesses

Improper Control of Filename for Include/Require Statement in PHP Program ('PHP Remote File Inclusion')

The PHP application receives input from an upstream component, but it does not restrict or incorrectly restricts the input before its usage in "require," "include," or...

Improper Neutralization of Directives in Dynamically Evaluated Code ('Eval Injection')

The software receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes code syntax before using the input in a dynamic evaluatio...

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

The software 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...

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

The software constructs all or part of a command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes sp...

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

The software constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralize...

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')

The software constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutraliz...

Improper Output Neutralization for Logs

The software does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes output that is written to logs.

XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection)

The software does not properly neutralize special elements that are used in XML, allowing attackers to modify the syntax, content, or commands of the XML before it is ...

Concepts

Deprecated or Obsolete

Weaknesses in OWASP Top Ten (2004)

CWE nodes in this view (graph) are associated with the OWASP Top Ten, as released in 2004, and as required for compliance with PCI DSS version 1.1. This view is consid...

See Also

  1. A6 Injection Flaws

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