A vulnerability has been identified in TWiki, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise a vulnerable web server. This issue is due to an error when handling specially crafted CGI session files, which could allow an attacker with the ability to create files in the CGI session directory (e.g. "/tmp") to execute arbitrary perl code with the privileges of the web server.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Andrew Moise
ChangeLog
2007-02-09 : Initial release
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