From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Nov 01 2004 - 09:22:02 CST

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TITLE:
haserl Manipulation of Critical Environment Variables Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA13031

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/13031/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Manipulation of data

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Haserl 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/4191/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in haserl, which can be exploited
by malicious people to manipulate critical environment variables.

haserl executes shell scripts embedded in HTML documents using a cgi
wrapper and sets all input parameters as environment variables. This
could be exploited to cause certain programs and utilities to behave
unexpectedly and potentially be exploited to execute arbitrary system
commands.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.5.1. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.6.0.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115530

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor

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