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CVE-2008-6840

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 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: 2009-07-01 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Multiple PHP remote file inclusion vulnerabilities in V-webmail 1.6.4 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the (1) CONFIG[pear_dir] parameter to (a) Mail/RFC822.php, (b) Net/Socket.php, (c) XML/Parser.php, (d) XML/Tree.php, (e) Mail/mimeDecode.php, (f) Console/Getopt.php, (g) System.php, (h) Log.php, and (i) File.php in includes/pear/; the CONFIG[pear_dir] parameter to (j) includes/prepend.php, and (k) includes/cachedConfig.php; and the (2) CONFIG[includes] parameter to (l) prepend.php and (m) email.list.search.php in includes/. NOTE: the CONFIG[pear_dir] parameter to includes/mailaccess/pop3.php is already covered by CVE-2006-2666.

Affected products

• Christof Bruyland V-Webmail: 1.6.4

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.org/0807-exploits/vwebmail-rfi.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30162
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46680
• http://packetstormsecurity.org/0807-exploits/vwebmail-rfi.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30162
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46680

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