Title: Perlbot Email Sending Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Perlbot is an IRC bot written in Perl. It depends on Net::IRC and its goals are simplicity and modularity. It is available for Linux and Unix operating systems.
A remote command execution vulnerability has been discovered in Perlbot v1.0 beta.
Reportedly, the script does not properly sanitize the input for the '$recipient' variable. Additionally, this input is passed through the open() function which invokes the shell directly. If a user enters a command into this variable, the commands will executed on the host with the privileges of Perlbot.
This issue was reported for Perlbot v1.0 beta.
Affected Products:
- Perlbot Perlbot 1.0.0 beta
References:
- www.perlbot.com: Perlbot product page.
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