CVE-2002-0985

critical

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in the mail function for PHP 4.x to 4.2.2 may allow attackers to bypass safe mode restrictions and modify command line arguments to the MTA (e.g. sendmail) in the 5th argument to mail(), altering MTA behavior and possibly executing commands.

References

Advisories
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9966

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105760591228031&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103011916928204&w=2

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2002-0974

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-159.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-248.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-244.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-243.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-214.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-213.html

http://www.osvdb.org/2111

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2002_036_modphp4.html

http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:082

http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-168

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000545

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2002-09-24

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02951