Description
The calender.pl and the calendar_admin.pl calendar scripts by Matt Kruse allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Matt Kruse Calendar Script 2.2 - Arbitrary Command Execution EDB-19921 · remote · May 16, 2000 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 20000516 Vuln in calender.pl (Matt Kruse calender script) mailing-list
- 1215 vdb-entry