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CVE-2001-0849

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2001-12-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

viralator CGI script in Viralator 0.9pre1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a URL for a file being downloaded, which is insecurely passed to a call to wget.

Affected products

• Duncan Hall Viralator: 0.7, 0.8, 0.9_pre1

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100463639800515&w=2
• http://viralator.loddington.com/changes.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3495
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7440
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100463639800515&w=2
• http://viralator.loddington.com/changes.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3495
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7440

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