CVE-1999-1436

CVSS 2.0 Score 7.5 of 10 (high)

Details

Published Jul 8, 1998
Updated: Oct 18, 2016

Summary

CVE-1999-1436 is a vulnerability affecting the Ray Chan WWW Authorization Gateway 0.1 CGI program. Attackers can exploit this flaw by sending specially crafted input in the "user" parameter that contains shell metacharacters, allowing them to execute arbitrary commands remotely. This vulnerability poses a significant risk to systems running the impacted software, and administrators are urged to apply the available patch or upgrade to a more secure version as soon as possible.

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