CVE-2002-0985
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · CWE-88
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
Argument injection vulnerability in the mail function for PHP 4.x to 4.2.2 may allow attackers to bypass safe mode restrictions and modify command line arguments to the MTA (e.g. sendmail) in the 5th argument to mail(), altering MTA behavior and possibly executing commands.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Official patch: http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-168 ↗
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-168Patch
- ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2003-008.0.txt
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000545
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103011916928204&w=2Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105760591228031&w=2Advisory
- http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:082
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2002_036_modphp4.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/2111