Security of Your CGI Scripts

These resources provide information related to writing secure CGI scripts for WWW servers. General information on CGI is provided elsewhere.

The WWW Security document by Lincoln Stein is the most comprehensive of the listed resources at this time, and it has a substantial section on CGI.

• Writing safe CGI scripts -- an overview (Paul Phillips)
• WWW Security (Lincoln Stein)
• CGI Security (Michael Van Biesbrouck)
• NCSA's tips for writing secure CGI scripts
• Latro, a tool for identifying insecure Perl CGI installations (Tom Christiansen)
• Are You Safe? (Keith Gardner)

If you know of other places addressing CGI security specifically, please submit to LZSupport @ LiveZone.com.

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