Overview
Webglimpse, a web site search application, contains a command injection vulnerability.
Description
The webglimpse.cgi script contains a command injection vulnerability. An attacker can use a specifically crafted query URL parameter to run system commands. The results of the command will be displayed in the resulting web page. An example of the query parameter is below: |
Impact
An attacker may be able to run operating system commands under the context of the user running the web server. It has been reported that attackers are leveraging this vulnerability to install PHP backdoors on affected web servers. |
Solution
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Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | 5 | AV:N/AC:--/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:P |
| Temporal | 4.3 | E:H/RL:OF/RC:C |
| Environmental | 4.3 | CDP:ND/TD:ND/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND |
References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Kevin Perry for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Jared Allar.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | None |
| Severity Metric: | 3.38 |
| Date Public: | 2012-03-20 |
| Date First Published: | 2012-03-20 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2012-03-27 20:22 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 26 |