CVE-2007-4538

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-08-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

email_in.pl in Bugzilla 2.23.4 through 3.0.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the -f (From address) option to the Email::Send::Sendmail function, probably involving shell metacharacters.

Affected products

Mozilla Bugzilla: 2.4, 2.6, 2.8, 2.9, 2.23.4, 3.0.0

References

http://osvdb.org/37203
http://secunia.com/advisories/26584
http://secunia.com/advisories/26971
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-18.xml
http://www.bugzilla.org/security/2.20.4/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477630/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25425
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018604
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2977
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386860
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36243
http://osvdb.org/37203

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