CVE-2006-2550

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-05-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

perlpodder before 0.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in the URL of a podcast, which are executed when saving the URL to a log file. NOTE: the wget vector is already covered by CVE-2006-2548.

Affected products

Perlpodder: through 0.4; 0.2, 0.3

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-05/0570.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/20238
http://www.osvdb.org/25708
http://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2006-003.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/434711/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18067
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1906
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26575
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-05/0570.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/20238
http://www.osvdb.org/25708
http://www.redteam-pentesting.de/advisories/rt-sa-2006-003.php

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