Throughout November, I plan to release details on vulnerabilities I
found in web-browsers which I’ve not released before. This is the
tenth entry in that series.
Unexpected behavior of cmd.exe while processing .bat files leads to
potential command injection vulnerabilities
Tested on: Windows 7, Windows 10
Author: Julian Horoszkiewicz
It was discovered that cmd.exe, when processing .bat files, treats the
ASCII substitute character (code 26) as a command separator (like & or |).
This opens the way for unexpected command injection vulnerabilities in
applications which generate .bat files based on user…
Throughout November, I plan to release details on vulnerabilities I
found in web-browsers which I’ve not released before. This is the
ninth entry in that series, and the first to not target a Microsoft browser.
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Weak validation of Amazon SNS push messages in W3 Total Cache WordPress
Plugin
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Sipke Mellema, July 2016
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Abstract
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A vulnerability in the validation of Amazon…