Arbitrary Command Execution in Sdbsearch.cgi in SuSE Linux 6.0-7.2

CVE-2001-1130 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Sdbsearch.cgi in SuSE Linux 6.0-7.2 could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by uploading a keylist.txt file that contains filenames with shell metacharacters, then causing the file to be searched using a .. in the HTTP referer (from the HTTP_REFERER variable) to point to the directory that contains the keylist.txt file.

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