CVE-2006-2548: Perlpodder

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 13.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Prodder before 0.5, and perlpodder before 0.5, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in the URL of a podcast (url attribute of an enclosure tag, or $enc_url variable), which is executed when running wget.

Affected products

• Perlpodder Perlpodder: up to and including 0.4; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only
• Prodder Prodder: up to and including 0.4; version 0.3 only

Published 2006-05-23. Last modified 2026-06-16.