This is an exploit for the CVE-2019-16278 vulnerability.
It allows remote code execution on an nhttpd server v1.9.6.
This tool is written in Rust and you need to install the Rust compiler which is super easy if you follow the instructions in their page
Once you have the compiler and cargo
installed, you can run:
cargo build
./cve-2019-16278 10.10.1.1 80 "cat /etc/passwd"
This example connects to the host 10.10.1.1 on port 80 and executes the cat /etc/passwd
on the remote host.