PT-2003-2310 · Cgi::Lite · Cgi::Lite

Ronald F. Guilmette · Published 2003-12-31 · Updated 2017-07-29 · CVE-2003-1365

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions CGI::Lite versions 2.0 and earlier

Description The issue concerns the escape dangerous chars function, which fails to properly remove special characters, including backslash, ?, ~, ^, newline, and carriage return. This could allow remote attackers to read or write arbitrary files or execute arbitrary commands in shell scripts that rely on CGI::Lite for input filtering.

Recommendations For CGI::Lite versions 2.0 and earlier, update to a version that correctly removes special characters, or as a temporary workaround, consider manually filtering out dangerous characters, including backslash, ?, ~, ^, newline, and carriage return, to prevent potential exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2003-1365

Affected Products

Cgi::Lite

References · 8

• 🔥 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0065.html · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/311414 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://search.cpan.org/~smylers/CGI-Lite-2.02/Lite.pm · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-1365 · Security Note
• http://use.perl.org/~cbrooks/journal/10542 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/6833 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11308 · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3237 · Note