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Vulnerabilities

What you need to know

One of the early web application vulnerabilities I remember was CVE-2000-0411 [CVE]. This was a simple vulnerability in a CGI-bin script used to send e-mail. The vulnerability was pretty straightforward: Adding additional parameters to the URL leaked environment variables. Other vulnerabilities allowed setting the "To" address and were heavily abused by…

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This is an InfosecFeed curated brief based on reporting from SANS Internet Storm Center. InfosecFeed does not claim ownership of the original reporting.

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