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Windmail.exe Shell Metacharacter Arbitrary Command Execution

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FamilyCGI abuses
Nessus Plugin ID10365 (windmail.nasl)
Bugtraq ID1073
CVE IDCVE-2000-0242

Description:
Synopsis :

The remote web server contains a CGI script that is prone to arbitrary
command execution.

Description :

The remote host may be running WindMail as a CGI application. In this
mode, some versions of the 'windmail.exe' script allow an attacker to
execute arbitrary commands on the remote server.

See also :

http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2000/Mar/0322.html

Solution :

Remove the CGI script.

Risk factor :

High / CVSS Base Score : 7.5
(CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
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