CVE-2008-5619

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 58.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-12-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

html2text.php in Chuggnutt HTML to Text Converter, as used in PHPMailer before 5.2.10, RoundCube Webmail (roundcubemail) 0.2-1.alpha and 0.2-3.beta, Mahara, and AtMail Open 1.03, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted input that is processed by the preg_replace function with the eval switch.

Affected products

Roundcube Webmail: 0.2.1-alpha, 0.2.3-beta

References

http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=533
http://osvdb.org/53893
http://secunia.com/advisories/33145
http://secunia.com/advisories/33170
http://secunia.com/advisories/34789
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=898542
http://trac.roundcube.net/changeset/2148
http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1485618
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/12/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499489/100/0/threaded
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3418
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3419

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