CVE-2002-1582

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Summary

CVECVE-2002-1582
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2004-12-06 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
Descriptioncompose.cgi in Mailreader.com 2.3.30 and 2.3.31, when using Sendmail as the Mail Transfer Agent, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the RealEmail configuration variable, which is used to call Sendmail in network.cgi.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 10 from [email protected]

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

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mailreader.com Mailreader.com 2.3.30 All All All
Application Mailreader.com Mailreader.com 2.3.31 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
's by request of one Anthony DiSante * A fixed Dutch translation by Almar van Pel * Added ALT's to all -tags by request of Raul A. Gallegos * Possibility to use the sendmail binary instead of SMTP by Mark Slemko * Cookie-based session identification for those browsers that accept cookies (a fix for a nasty security bug) * A workaround for an IIS bug for a piece of code that was originally put in there to work around IE bugs :-) 2.3.29 Thu Jul 19 09:37 2001 Kim Holviala * Uh... .27 and .2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mailreader.com Vendor Advisory
ISS X-Force Database: mailreader-compose-command-execution (10491): Mailreader.com compose.cgi script could allow an attacker to execute commands af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.iss.net Patch, Vendor Advisory
MailReader.com Remote Command Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Patch, Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit, Patch, Vendor Advisory
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