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Command Injection Without Spaces

I came across a nice little command injection vulnerability while doing a bug bounty recently. The only catch was that I couldn't use any spaces in the commands. Let me go into the details... Note: I can't post any details about the application as it was a private bounty program. It all began with the page providing an input box for doing 'nslookup' of a domain or IP entered by the user. A page like this always excites a bug bounty hunter as the application has to pass user's input to underlying system command to perform nslookup and present the output of that command in the browser. If the developer has made any mistake in validating and sanitizing the input, they inadvertently open the doors to attackers misusing this feature to execute arbitrary commands on the server. So, when I saw the input box I started to explore and try to force the application in executing arbitrary commands. I began with simple input google.com My next automatic try was to in