Security readout for executives and security teams
A legacy web contact-form script called mailto.cgi failed to sanitize the email address field, letting a remote attacker slip in special shell characters that the server would then execute as commands. Any site still running this ancient CGI could hand full command execution to anonymous internet users. The flaw dates to 2000 and predates modern web stacks, but any surviving deployment would be trivially compromised. Extremely low in modern estates. The vulnerable script is a 1990s-era Perl CGI rarely deployed today. Exposure is limited to unmaintained legacy web servers still serving mailto.cgi, or archival appliances that have never been re-platformed. Any surviving instance is likely already indexed by opportunistic scanners. Low priority for most modern organizations because the affected script is obsolete, but treat any confirmed instance as urgent since exploitation is trivial and grants remote command execution. Ask IT to confirm no legacy CGI mailers remain in the estate. Mitigation focus: Retire or remove any mailto.cgi script from production web servers.; Disable CGI execution on web roots that no longer need it.; Replace legacy contact forms with a maintained mail-handling service..
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- mailto-piped-address(5241)CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
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