Ray Chan WWW Authorization Gateway 0.1 - Command Execution

Author: Albert Nubdy
type: remote
platform: multiple
port: 
date_added: 1998-07-08  
date_updated: 2017-11-15  
verified: 1  
codes: CVE-1999-1436;OSVDB-13526  
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aliases:   
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application_url:   

raw file: 19121.txt  

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/152/info

A vulnerability exists in the WWW Authorization Gateway program written by Ray Chan. Version 1.0 fails to eliminate characters with special meaning to the shell prior to executing a command. As a result, an attacker can utilize certain characters to execute arbitrary commands on a system remotely, as whatever user invoked the cgi-bin.

Place the following as a username:
| some command
and any password. The command will be executed.