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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…
High10.0EPSS 6.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.1% · top 6.5% 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 10.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (13)
- FEDORA-2009-11613 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Ping/download/2.4.5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pear/packages/Net_Ping/trunk/Ping.php?r1=274728&r2=290669&pathrev=290669 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://pear.php.net/advisory20091114-01.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-12156 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- netping-ping-command-execution(54390) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://blog.pear.php.net/2009/11/14/net_traceroute-and-net_ping-security-advisory/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 37093 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2009-3320 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 37502 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-11523 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- DSA-1949 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 37451 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
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- 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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- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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