PEAR Sendmail 'Recipient' Parameter Arbitrary Argument Injection Vulnerability

BID:37395

Info

PEAR Sendmail 'Recipient' Parameter Arbitrary Argument Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 37395
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2009-4111
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Nov 28 2009 12:00AM
Updated: Dec 19 2014 12:56AM
Credit: Josh Bressers
Vulnerable: SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP1
SuSE SUSE Linux Enterprise 11
PEAR PEAR 1.1.14
Gentoo Linux
Not Vulnerable: PEAR PEAR 1.2.0b2

Discussion

PEAR Sendmail 'Recipient' Parameter Arbitrary Argument Injection Vulnerability

PEAR is prone to a remote argument-injection vulnerability because it fails to adequately sanitize user-supplied input data.

Remote attackers can exploit this issue to pass arbitrary arguments to the 'sendmail' command. This may allow attackers to obtain the contents of arbitrary files, overwrite arbitrary files, or launch other attacks.

The issue affects PEAR 1.1.14; other versions may also be affected.

Exploit / POC

PEAR Sendmail 'Recipient' Parameter Arbitrary Argument Injection Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit the issue via a browser.

Solution / Fix

PEAR Sendmail 'Recipient' Parameter Arbitrary Argument Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references for details.

References

PEAR Sendmail 'Recipient' Parameter Arbitrary Argument Injection Vulnerability

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