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CVE-2006-6629

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2006-12-18 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

lib/WeBWorK/PG/Translator.pm in WeBWorK Program Generation (PG) Language before 2.3.1 uses an insufficiently restrictive regular expression to determine valid macro filenames, which allows attackers to load arbitrary macro files whose names contain the strings (1) dangerousMacros.pl, (2) PG.pl, or (3) IO.pl.

Affected Platforms

Webwork Program Generation Language

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References