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 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
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg01152.html (vendor-advisory)
- pear.php.net/package/Net_Ping/download/2.4.5 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- svn.php.net/viewvc/pear/packages/Net_Ping/trunk/Ping.php
- pear.php.net/advisory20091114-01.txt (Vendor Advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg01130.html (vendor-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54390 (vdb-entry)
- blog.pear.php.net/2009/11/14/net_traceroute-and-net_ping-security-advisory/ (Patch)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/37093 (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3320 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/37502 (third-party-advisory)