CVE-2006-2550: Perlpodder

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

perlpodder before 0.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in the URL of a podcast, which are executed when saving the URL to a log file. NOTE: the wget vector is already covered by CVE-2006-2548.

Affected products

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

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