CVE-1999-1479 describes a critical arbitrary command execution vulnerability in Matt Wright's textcounter.pl script. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands due to improper handling of shell metacharacters. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no authentication, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the KEV catalog or Hot List, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:matt_wright:textcounter:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.