Title: WWW Authorization Gateway Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
A vulnerability exists in the WWW Authorization Gateway program written by Ray Chan. Version 1.0 fails to eliminate characters with special meaning to the shell prior to executing a command. As a result, an attacker can utilize certain characters to execute arbitrary commands on a system remotely, as whatever user invoked the cgi-bin.
Affected Products:
- Ray Chan WWW Authorization Gateway 0.1.0
References:
- Perl Reunion 98: Perl Reunion 98 - Auto Responder 0.7.1
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