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CVE-2002-1993: Affordable Web Space Design Webbbs: Command injection

CVE-2002-1993 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and NVD lists Affordable Web Space Design Webbbs as the affected product. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

webbbs_post.pl in WebBBS 4 and 5.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the followup parameter.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

• Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
• Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
• Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
• Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
• Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
• Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Affected products

• Affordable Web Space Design Webbbs: 4.0; 4.1; 4.2; 4.10; 4.11; 4.12; 4.20; 4.21; 4.22; 4.30; 4.31; 4.32

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5048
• http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2002/06/msg00232.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9378.php