Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-4024

RCE

Title: Pear RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-4024.

CWE Category CWE-94

Published Date Nov 29, 2009

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

6.13%

Vulnerability Summary

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 execute arbitrary shell commands via the host parameter. NOTE: this has also been reported as a shell metacharacter problem.

Impacted Vendors

php_group 1

pear 1

Reference Links

http://blog.pear.php.net/2009/11/14/net_traceroute-and-net_ping-security-advisory/ http://pear.php.net/advisory20091114-01.txt http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Ping/download/2.4.5 http://secunia.com/advisories/37451 http://secunia.com/advisories/37502 http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pear/packages/Net_Ping/trunk/Ping.php?r1=274728&r2=290669&pathrev=290669 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1949 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37093 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3320 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54390 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg01044.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg01130.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg01152.html http://blog.pear.php.net/2009/11/14/net_traceroute-and-net_ping-security-advisory/ http://pear.php.net/advisory20091114-01.txt http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Ping/download/2.4.5 http://secunia.com/advisories/37451 http://secunia.com/advisories/37502 http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pear/packages/Net_Ping/trunk/Ping.php?r1=274728&r2=290669&pathrev=290669 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1949 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37093 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3320 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54390 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg01044.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg01130.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg01152.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-2009-4024 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.