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CVE-2008-2051

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 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: 2008-05-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The escapeshellcmd API function in PHP before 5.2.6 has unknown impact and context-dependent attack vectors related to "incomplete multibyte chars."

Affected products

• PHP: through 5.2.5; 5.0.0-beta1, 5.0.0-beta2, 5.0.0-beta3, 5.0.0-beta4, 5.0.0-rc1, 5.0.0-rc2 (+18)

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Jul/msg00003.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30048
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30083
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30158
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30288
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30345
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30411
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30757
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30828
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30967
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31119

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