CVE-2003-1365: Perl Cgi Lite

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The escape_dangerous_chars function in CGI::Lite 2.0 and earlier does not correctly remove special characters including (1) "\" (backslash), (2) "?", (3) "~" (tilde), (4) "^" (carat), (5) newline, or (6) carriage return, which could allow remote attackers to read or write arbitrary files, or execute arbitrary commands, in shell scripts that rely on CGI::Lite to filter such dangerous inputs.

Affected products

• Perl Cgi Lite: version 2.0 only

Published 2003-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.