CVE-2002-0985

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Summary

CVECVE-2002-0985
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2002-09-24 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionArgument injection vulnerability in the mail function for PHP 4.x to 4.2.2 may allow attackers to bypass safe mode restrictions and modify command line arguments to the MTA (e.g. sendmail) in the 5th argument to mail(), altering MTA behavior and possibly executing commands.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: CWE-88 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openpkg Openpkg 1.1 All All All
Application Openpkg Openpkg 1.2 All All All
Application Php Php All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
'PHP: Bypass safe_mode and inject ASCII control chars with mail()' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info Third Party Advisory
'[OpenPKG-SA-2003.032] OpenPKG Security Advisory (php)' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info Third Party Advisory
Mandrakesoft Security Advisories af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandrakesoft.com Broken Link
ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2003-008.0.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ftp.caldera.com Broken Link
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Broken Link
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Broken Link
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-168-1 php af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
NOVELL: Broken Link - 404 Error Pages af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.novell.com Broken Link
Home - Conectiva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 distro.conectiva.com.br Broken Link
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Broken Link
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Broken Link
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
www.osvdb.org/2111 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org Broken Link
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Broken Link
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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