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CVE-2002-0985

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-09-24 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-88

Description

Argument 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.

Affected products

• Openpkg: 1.1, 1.2
• PHP: from 4.0 through 4.2.2

References

• http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000545
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103011916928204&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105760591228031&w=2
• http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-168
• http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:082
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2002_036_modphp4.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/2111
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-213.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-214.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-243.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-244.html

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