CVEvulnerability
CVE-2003-1365
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2003-12-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The escape_dangerous_chars function in CGI::Lite 2.0 and earlier does not correctly remove special characters including (1) "\" (backslash), (2) "?", (3) "~" (tilde), (4) "^" (carat), (5) newline, or (6) carriage return, which could allow remote attackers to read or write arbitrary files, or execute arbitrary commands, in shell scripts that rely on CGI::Lite to filter such dangerous inputs.
Affected configurations
• perl cgi lite 2.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0065.html Exploit
- http://search.cpan.org/~smylers/CGI-Lite-2.02/Lite.pm Exploit
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3237 securityreason.com
- http://use.perl.org/~cbrooks/journal/10542 use.perl.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/311414 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6833 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11308 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0065.html Exploit
- http://search.cpan.org/~smylers/CGI-Lite-2.02/Lite.pm Exploit
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3237 securityreason.com
- http://use.perl.org/~cbrooks/journal/10542 use.perl.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/311414 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6833 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11308 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com