CVE-2008-5619

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-5619
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-12-17 02:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
Descriptionhtml2text.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.

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: CWE-94 | 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 Roundcube Webmail 0.2.1 alpha All All
Application Roundcube Webmail 0.2.3 beta All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Fedora update for roundcubemail - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Add security notices · PHPMailer/PHPMailer@8beacc6 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
#1485618 (Break-in possiblity via html2text.php?) – RoundCube Webmail – Trac af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 trac.roundcube.net Exploit
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
chuggnutt.com "HTML to Plain Text Conversion" PHP Class Code Execution - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: roundcubemail-0.2-4.beta.fc9 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com
osvdb.org/53893 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
Mahara Cross-Site Scripting and PHP Code Execution Vulnerabilities - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
RoundCube Webmail <= 0.2-3 beta Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com
SourceForge.net: News: Security update for 0.2-beta af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 sourceforge.net Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: roundcubemail-0.2-4.beta.fc8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
RoundCube Webmail <= 0.2b Remote Code Execution Exploit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com
Security Announcements - Remote code execution in Mahara 1.1.2 - Mahara ePortfolio System af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 mahara.org
Changeset 2148 – Roundcube Webmail af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 trac.roundcube.net Exploit
oss-security - CVE Request - roundcubemail af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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