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)

EPSS: 0.061 (92.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Pear — versions 0.1, 1.0, 1.0.1
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References