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CVE-2009-4025

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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.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg01110.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg01007.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00998.html

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54391

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2009-3996

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3321

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37094

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/23/8

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-06.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/37503

http://secunia.com/advisories/37497

http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Traceroute/download/0.21.2

http://pear.php.net/advisory20091114-01.txt

http://osvdb.org/60515

http://blog.pear.php.net/2009/11/14/net_traceroute-and-net_ping-security-advisory/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-11-29

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.05802

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