Title: Avenger's News System Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Avenger's News System (ANS) is a simple form-based web site management tool written in Perl. It will run on most Unix and Linux variants.
ANS does not filter shell metacharacters (such as ;, |, etc.) from web requests. It is possible for a remote attacker to craft a malicious web request which contains such characters. The attacker may execute commands on the underlying shell of the host running the vulnerable software. Commands will be executed with the privileges of the webserver process.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to gain local access to the host running the vulnerable software.
Affected Products:
- Avenger's News System Avenger's News System 2.0.0 1
- Avenger's News System Avenger's News System 2.1.0 1
References:
- Avenger's News System: Avenger's News System Homepage
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