Critical code injection in panhainan DS-Java 1.0 via fileUpload in uploadUserPic
CVE-2025-3842 Published on April 21, 2025
panhainan DS-Java FileUpload.java uploadUserPic.action code injection
A vulnerability was found in panhainan DS-Java 1.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects the function uploadUserPic.action of the file src/com/phn/action/FileUpload.java. The manipulation of the argument fileUpload leads to code injection. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
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Weakness Types
What is a Code Injection Vulnerability?
The software constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.
CVE-2025-3842 has been classified to as a Code Injection vulnerability or weakness.
What is an Injection Vulnerability?
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 incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. Software has certain assumptions about what constitutes data and control respectively. It is the lack of verification of these assumptions for user-controlled input that leads to injection problems. Injection problems encompass a wide variety of issues -- all mitigated in very different ways and usually attempted in order to alter the control flow of the process. For this reason, the most effective way to discuss these weaknesses is to note the distinct features which classify them as injection weaknesses. The most important issue to note is that all injection problems share one thing in common -- i.e., they allow for the injection of control plane data into the user-controlled data plane. This means that the execution of the process may be altered by sending code in through legitimate data channels, using no other mechanism. While buffer overflows, and many other flaws, involve the use of some further issue to gain execution, injection problems need only for the data to be parsed. The most classic instantiations of this category of weakness are SQL injection and format string vulnerabilities.
CVE-2025-3842 has been classified to as an Injection vulnerability or weakness.
Affected Versions
panhainan DS-Java Version 1.0 is affected by CVE-2025-3842Exploit Probability
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