CVE-2002-1536: Hans Persson Molly

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Molly IRC bot 0.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) the $host variable for nslookup.pl, (2) the $to, $from, or $message variables in pop.pl, (3) the $words or $text variables in sms.pl, or (4) the $server or $printer variables in hpled.pl.

Affected products

• Hans Persson Molly: version 0.5 only

Published 2003-03-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.