Weakness
Command injection
Getting an application to run operating-system commands built from attacker input.
When software passes input to a shell command without sanitising it, characters like ; or | let an attacker append their own commands. Network appliances with web management pages are a classic place for it.
Command injection in the news
Recent stories that mention it.
The weakness behind it
Its CWE entry, with CVEs in the news, attacker techniques and the controls that stop it.
Related
Plain-language explainers written by SecurityTabs, matched to stories by name. All terms