CVE-2002-1843: Perlbot

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Perlbot 1.9.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) the $text variable in SpelCheck.pm or (2) the $filename variable in HTMLPlog.pm.

Affected products

• Perlbot Perlbot: version 1.9.2 only

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.