Vulnerability in Internic Whois Lookup

CVE-1999-0983

Whois Internic Lookup program whois.cgi allows remote attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters in the domain entry.

EPSS: 0.027 (84.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Internic Whois_lookup — versions 1.0
N/a — versions n/a

Public proof-of-concept exploits

Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-1999-0983

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-1999-0983?: CVE-1999-0983 is a vulnerability in Internic Whois Lookup. Published 1999-11-09.
Is CVE-1999-0983 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.