From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Feb 06 2006 - 05:32:11 CST

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TITLE:
MyQuiz "myquiz.pl" Shell Command Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18737

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/18737/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
MyQuiz 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/7640/

DESCRIPTION:
Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu has reported a vulnerability in MyQuiz, which
can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable
system.

Input passed to the "ENV{'PATH_INFO'}" variable in "myquiz.pl" isn't
properly sanitised before being used. This can be exploited to inject
and execute arbitrary shell commands.

Example:
http://[victim]/cgi-bin/myquiz.pl/ask/;[code]|

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.01. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source code to ensure that input is properly sanitised.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://evuln.com/vulns/57/summary.html

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