CVE-2009-4025

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-11-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-78

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in the traceroute function in Traceroute.php in the Net_Traceroute package before 0.21.2 for PEAR allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via the host parameter. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Pear: through 0.21.1; 0.11, 0.20, 0.21

References

http://blog.pear.php.net/2009/11/14/net_traceroute-and-net_ping-security-advisory/
http://osvdb.org/60515
http://pear.php.net/advisory20091114-01.txt
http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Traceroute/download/0.21.2
http://secunia.com/advisories/37497
http://secunia.com/advisories/37503
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-06.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/23/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37094
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3321
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54391
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00998.html

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