Injection Vulnerabilities

Question 1

What are injection vulnerabilities?

Answer 1

class of security vulnerabilities that occur when untrusted data is sent to an interpreter or a command execution environment without proper validation or sanitization

Question 2

How do attackers exploit injection vulnerabilities?

Answer 2

by injecting malicious input that is interpreted and executed by the targeted system

Question 3

What’s the potential impact of injection vulnerabilities?

Answer 3

unauthorized data access, data manipulation, privilege escalation, or even complete system compromise

Question 4

What are the mechanisms for preventing injection vulnerabilities?

Answer 4

• Input Validation and Sanitization
• Parameterized Queries and Prepared Statements
• Least Privilege Principle
• Whitelisting and Input Filtering
• Avoiding Dynamic Query Generation
• Secure Coding Practices