Arbitrary Command Execution in Perlbot 1.9.2

CVE-2002-1843 · HIGH Severity

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

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.

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