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CVE-2009-4023
Argument injection vulnerability in the sendmail implementation of the Mail::Send method (Mail/sendmail.php) in the Mail package 1.1.14…
High7.5EPSS 2.4%
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- Updated
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- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (12)
- 37081 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2010:020 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 37458 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20091123 CVE request: Argument injections in multiple PEAR packages (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- ADV-2009-3300 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294256 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16200&edit=12&patch=quick-fix&revision=1241757412 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- pear-from-security-bypass(54362) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- DSA-1938 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 37410 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pear/packages/Mail/trunk/Mail/sendmail.php?r1=243717&r2=280134 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16200 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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