RCE in Pear

CVE-2009-4024

Argument injection vulnerability in the ping function in Ping.php in the Net_Ping package before 2.4.5 for PEAR allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via the host parameter. NOTE: this has also been reported as a shell metacharacter problem.

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.061 (93.2th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 93.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2009-4024: held from 0.061 to 0.061.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.061 · newest: 0.061 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Pear — versions 0.1, 1.0, 1.0.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

References