CVE-2001-0849: Duncan Hall Viralator

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

viralator CGI script in Viralator 0.9pre1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a URL for a file being downloaded, which is insecurely passed to a call to wget.

Affected products

• Duncan Hall Viralator: version 0.7 only; version 0.8 only; version 0.9_pre1 only

Published 2001-12-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.