CVE-2008-7158

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-09-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-78

Description

Numara FootPrints 7.5a through 7.5a1 and 8.0 through 8.0a allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) transcriptFile parameter to MRcgi/MRchat.pl or (2) LOADFILE parameter to MRcgi/MRABLoad2.pl. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Numarasoftware Footprints: 7.5a, 7.5a1, 8.0, 8.0a

References

http://osvdb.org/42813
http://osvdb.org/42816
http://secunia.com/advisories/28390
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27373
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39810
https://footprintssupport.numarasoftware.com/MRcgi/MRTicketPage.pl?USER=&MRP=0&PROJECTID=4&MR=89552&MAXMININC=&MAJOR_MODE=DETAILS
http://osvdb.org/42813
http://osvdb.org/42816
http://secunia.com/advisories/28390
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27373
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39810
https://footprintssupport.numarasoftware.com/MRcgi/MRTicketPage.pl?USER=&MRP=0&PROJECTID=4&MR=89552&MAXMININC=&MAJOR_MODE=DETAILS

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