CVE-2009-4023

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2009-05-07
Bugzilla:
540842: CVE-2009-4023 CVE-2009-4111 php-pear-Mail: Absent sanitization of mail header fields

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Argument injection vulnerability in the sendmail implementation of the Mail::Send method (Mail/sendmail.php) in the Mail package 1.1.14 for PEAR allows remote attackers to read and write arbitrary files via a crafted $from parameter, a different vector than CVE-2009-4111.

Find out more about CVE-2009-4023 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 6.4
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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