CVE-2005-3883

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-11-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in the mb_send_mail function in PHP before 5.1.0 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary e-mail headers via line feeds (LF) in the "To" address argument.

Affected products

PHP: 4.0.6, 4.0.7, 4.0.7-rc1, 4.0.7-rc2, 4.0.7-rc3, 4.1.0 (+30)

References

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=35307
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0276.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/17763
http://secunia.com/advisories/18054
http://secunia.com/advisories/18198
http://secunia.com/advisories/19832
http://secunia.com/advisories/20210
http://secunia.com/advisories/20951
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015296
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-129.htm
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:238

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