THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-2548
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-2548

Perlpodder vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
8.5%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
Prodder before 0.5, and perlpodder before 0.5, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in the URL of a podcast (url attribute of an enclosure tag, or $enc_url variable), which is executed when running wget.
Affected vendor
Perlpodder
Affected product
Perlpodder
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2006-05-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 8.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-2548

  • Confirm whether Perlpodder Perlpodder is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-2548.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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