Re (tilly) 1: Run arbitrary UNIX commands on webserver without telnet

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I far prefer the tried and true:

use CGI qw(:standard);
# Time passes
open(IN, param("input_file"));
# and do the rest of the apparently innocuous program
[download]

The proper usage of this handy command runner I leave to your imagination, a close read of open's semantics, and a reminder that if you know how to do a URI encoding, you can put pipes etc into the filename.

Yes. This is a warning about a basic security mistake that you may be making without realizing it...

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Re(dmm) 2: Run arbitrary UNIX commands on webserver without telnet by dmmiller2k (Chaplain) on Oct 30, 2001 at 19:42 UTC
Very stealthy. And concise. dmm You can give a man a fish and feed him for a day ... Or, you can teach him to fish and feed him for a lifetime	[reply]

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