Command & Code Injection

Welcome! In this lesson, we'll explore Command and Code Injection, two critical backend vulnerabilities.

These attacks trick your application into executing unintended system commands or application-level code, leading to severe security breaches.

• Command Injection: Executes OS commands.
• Code Injection: Executes application programming language code.

OS Command Injection occurs when an attacker can run arbitrary operating system commands on the server hosting your application.

This happens when an application passes unsanitized user-supplied input to a system shell, often through functions that execute external programs.

Attackers can then:

• Read, write, or delete files.
• Execute malicious scripts.
• Gain full control over the server.