Vulnerability in Perlbot

CVE-2002-1843

Perlbot 1.9.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) the $text variable in SpelCheck.pm or (2) the $filename variable in HTMLPlog.pm.

EPSS: 0.021 (79.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Perlbot — versions 1.9.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

References