CVE-2002-0061 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2002-0061?

CVE-2002-0061 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Apache Http Server, published on 2 Apr 2003. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Apache for Win32 before 1.3.24, and 2.0.x before 2.0.34-beta, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters (a | pipe character) provided as arguments to batch (.bat) or .cmd scripts, which are sent unfiltered to the shell interpreter, typically cmd.exe.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-0061?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Http Server.

How do I fix CVE-2002-0061?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-0061 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2002-0061 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2002-0061 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-6hq5-3246-pmqx.