CVE-2006-1015

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 12.4% 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 3.x, 4.x, and 5.x applications, when used with sendmail and when accepting remote input for the additional_parameters argument to the mail function, allows remote attackers to read and create arbitrary files via the sendmail -C and -X arguments. 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: 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5 (+69)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/19979
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/517
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/05-05-2006.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426497/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16878
http://secunia.com/advisories/19979
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/517
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/05-05-2006.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426497/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16878

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