Institute

Improper protection of physical side channels in cryptographic algorithms. Physical side channels refer to information leaked by the physical implementation of a system, such as power consumption or electromagnetic emissions, which can be analyzed to extract sensitive data.

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) occurs in the number guess example application due to improper neutralization of script-related HTML tags in a web page. XSS is a flaw that allows an attacker to inject malicious scripts into content delivered to other users.

Unsafe use of Python's `eval()` function on data received from a server within the `vector in()` function allows a rogue server or man-in-the-middle actor to execute arbitrary code on the client.

An uncontrolled recursion issue exists when processing untrusted configuration files. Specifically, the software throws a StackOverflowError—a runtime error that occurs when the call stack exceeds its allocated memory—when handling YAML input containing cycles.

The software contains a code injection issue stemming from inadequate validation of dashboard ID values before they are processed by an internal API. An attacker can leverage crafted dashboard ID values to execute arbitrary code within the Log Server process. The affected API receives dashboard ID values without proper sanitization, allowing for potential code execution. The vulnerable parameter is the dashboard ID.