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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2004-1037 in the critical feed json

The search function in TWiki 20030201 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a search string.

published 2004-11-19 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-1035

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
61.7%
EPSS 61.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.1%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

The search function in TWiki 20030201 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a search string.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/unix/webapp/twiki_search)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

61.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/unix/webapp/twiki_search TWiki Search Function Arbitrary Command Execution metasploit exploit, excellent rank, 2004-10-01
  • EDB-16894 TWiki - Search Function Arbitrary Command Execution (Metasploit) webapps, 2010-07-03
  • EDB-642 TWiki 20030201 - 'search.pm' Remote Command Execution webapps, 2004-11-20
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11674 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: remove wide gentoo CPE. This does not appear to be Gentoo-specific such that Gentoo should be set as a platform CPE and it is nonsense to have every version of a distro flagging as vulnerable.