CVE-2006-1014

Severity: low (CVSS 3.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-03-07 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in certain PHP 4.x and 5.x applications, when used with sendmail and when accepting remote input for the additional_parameters argument to the mb_send_mail function, allows context-dependent attackers to read and create arbitrary files by providing extra -C and -X arguments to sendmail. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a class of technology-specific vulnerability, instead of a particular instance; if so, then this should not be included in CVE.

Affected products

PHP: 4.0.0, 4.2, 4.3.3, 4.3.4, 4.3.5, 4.3.6 (+24)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/18694
http://secunia.com/advisories/19979
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/05-05-2006.html
http://www.osvdb.org/23534
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426342/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16878
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0772
http://secunia.com/advisories/18694
http://secunia.com/advisories/19979
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/05-05-2006.html
http://www.osvdb.org/23534
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426342/100/0/threaded

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