PT-2001-1500 · Unknown · Mailnews.Cgi

Published 2001-04-04 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2001-0271

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions mailnews.cgi version 1.3 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a user name that contains shell metacharacters.

Recommendations For mailnews.cgi version 1.3 and earlier, update to a version later than 1.3 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider validating and sanitizing user input to prevent the inclusion of shell metacharacters in user names.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2001-0271

Affected Products

Mailnews.Cgi

References · 3

• 🔥 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-02/0347.html · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2001-0271 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/2391 · Note