CVE-2002-1843

HIGH 7.5CVE-2002-1843 · Published 31/12/2002 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2002-1843 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting perlbot (perlbot).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.1%, higher than 81.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
perlbot perlbot	`= 1.9.2`	No fix yet

Description

Perlbot 1.9.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) the $text variable in SpelCheck.pm or (2) the $filename variable in HTMLPlog.pm.

References

online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/296134
iss.net/security_center/static/10403.php
iss.net/security_center/static/10404.php
securityfocus.com/bid/6008
securityfocus.com/bid/6009

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