Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-4023

RCE

Title: Pear RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-4023.

CWE Category CWE-94

Published Date Nov 29, 2009

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

3.14%

Vulnerability Summary

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 for PEAR allows remote attackers to read and write arbitrary files via a crafted $from parameter, a different vector than CVE-2009-4111.

Impacted Vendors

pear 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00001.html http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16200 http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16200&edit=12&patch=quick-fix&revision=1241757412 http://secunia.com/advisories/37410 http://secunia.com/advisories/37458 http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pear/packages/Mail/trunk/Mail/sendmail.php?r1=243717&r2=280134 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1938 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/23/8 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37081 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3300 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294256 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54362 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00001.html http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16200 http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=16200&edit=12&patch=quick-fix&revision=1241757412 http://secunia.com/advisories/37410 http://secunia.com/advisories/37458 http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pear/packages/Mail/trunk/Mail/sendmail.php?r1=243717&r2=280134 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1938 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/23/8 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37081 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3300 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=294256 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54362

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-4023 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 29, 2009 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:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.