Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-5619

RCE

Title: Roundcube Webmail RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-5619

CWE Category CWE-94
Published Date Dec 17, 2008
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
58.64%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-5619: html2text.php in Chuggnutt HTML to Text Converter, as used in PHPMailer before 5.2.10, RoundCube Webmail (roundcubemail) 0.2-1.alpha and 0.2-3.beta, Mahara, and AtMail Open 1.03, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted input that is processed by the preg_replace function with the eval switch.

Impacted Vendors

C
cobalt 1
R
roundcube 1
V
vdesk 1

Reference Links

http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=533 http://osvdb.org/53893 http://secunia.com/advisories/33145 http://secunia.com/advisories/33170 http://secunia.com/advisories/34789 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=898542 http://trac.roundcube.net/changeset/2148 http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1485618 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/12/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499489/100/0/threaded http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3418 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3419 https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/commit/8beacc646acb67c995aea10ac5585970efc7355a https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7549 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7553 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00783.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00802.html http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=533 http://osvdb.org/53893 http://secunia.com/advisories/33145 http://secunia.com/advisories/33170 http://secunia.com/advisories/34789 http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=898542 http://trac.roundcube.net/changeset/2148 http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1485618 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/12/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499489/100/0/threaded http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3418 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3419 https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/commit/8beacc646acb67c995aea10ac5585970efc7355a https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7549 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7553 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00783.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00802.html
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
10.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-5619 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7549
View Code
Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7553
View Code
MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.