RCE in Pear Mail
CVE-2009-4111
Argument injection vulnerability in Mail/sendmail.php in the Mail package 1.1.14, 1.2.0b2, and possibly other versions for PEAR allows remote attackers to read and write arbitrary files via a crafted $recipients parameter, and possibly other parameters, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-4023.
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.016 (75.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 75.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Pear Mail — versions 1.1.14, 1.2.0b2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/37458 (third-party-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/23/8 (mailing-list)
- pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php (Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1938 (vendor-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/28/2 (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/37395 (vdb-entry)
- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi