Free Online Dictionary of Computing 1.0 - Remote File Viewing



EKU-ID: 26231 CVE: CVE-2001-0461;OSVDB-5591 OSVDB-ID:
Author: Cgisecurity Published: 2001-03-09 Verified: Verified
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2484/info

A vulnerability exists in a CGI script called "The Free Online Dictionary of Computing".

Due to a failure to properly validate user supplied input, a remote attacker can compose and submit requests for files readable by the webserver, as well as executing certain commands (those requiring no command line parameters) with the privilege level of the webserver process.

http://example.com/foldoc/template.cgi?template.cgi