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CVE-2002-2215

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2002-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The imap_header function in the IMAP functionality for PHP before 4.3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an e-mail message with a large number of "To" addresses, which triggers an error in the rfc822_write_address function.

Affected products

• PHP: through 4.2.3; 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5 (+42)

References

• http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=19280
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175040
• http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=19280
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175040

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