CVE-2003-0615: Cgi.pm

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in start_form() of CGI.pm allows remote attackers to insert web script via a URL that is fed into the form's action parameter.

Affected products

• Cgi.pm Cgi.pm: version 2.73 only; version 2.74 only; version 2.75 only; version 2.76 only; version 2.78 only; version 2.79 only; …
• Debian Debian Linux: version 3.0 only
• Openpkg Openpkg: version 1.2 only; version 1.3 only; version current only

Published 2003-08-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.