Free Online Dictionary of Computing 1.0 - Remote File Viewing

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2001-0461  
Publish Date: 09 Mar 2001
Author: Cgisecurity
                source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2484/info

A vulnerability exists in a CGI script called "The Free Online Dictionary of Computing".

Due to a failure to properly validate user supplied input, a remote attacker can compose and submit requests for files readable by the webserver, as well as executing certain commands (those requiring no command line parameters) with the privilege level of the webserver process. 

http://example.com/foldoc/template.cgi?template.cgi