CVE-2006-2548

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 13.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-05-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Prodder before 0.5, and perlpodder before 0.5, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in the URL of a podcast (url attribute of an enclosure tag, or $enc_url variable), which is executed when running wget.

Affected products

Perlpodder: through 0.4; 0.2, 0.3
Prodder: through 0.4; 0.3

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-05/0567.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/20208
http://secunia.com/advisories/20238
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/942
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=418189&group_id=148643
http://www.osvdb.org/25690
http://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2006-002.php
http://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2006-003.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434712/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18068
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1905
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26568

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