CVE-2002-0986

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The mail function in PHP 4.x to 4.2.2 does not filter ASCII control characters from its arguments, which could allow remote attackers to modify mail message content, including mail headers, and possibly use PHP as a "spam proxy."

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N).

Overview

Type

PHP

First reported 22 years ago

2002-09-24 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:30:00

Affected Software

PHP PHP 3.0.18

3.0.18

PHP 4.0.0

4.0

PHP PHP 4.0.1

4.0.1

PHP PHP 4.0.2

4.0.2

PHP PHP 4.0.3

4.0.3

PHP PHP 4.0.4

4.0.4

PHP PHP 4.0.5

4.0.5

PHP PHP 4.0.6

4.0.6

PHP PHP 4.0.7

4.0.7

PHP PHP 4.1.0

4.1.0

PHP PHP 4.1.1

4.1.1

PHP PHP 4.1.2

4.1.2

PHP PHP 4.2.0

4.2.0

PHP PHP 4.2.1

4.2.1

PHP PHP 4.2.2

4.2.2

References

CSSA-2003-008.0

CLA-2002:545

20020823 PHP: Bypass safe_mode and inject ASCII control chars with mail()

20030707 [OpenPKG-SA-2003.032] OpenPKG Security Advisory (php)

DSA-168

VU#410609

US Government Resource

MDKSA-2003:082

SuSE-SA:2002:036

2160

RHSA-2002:213

RHSA-2002:214

RHSA-2002:243

RHSA-2002:244

RHSA-2002:248

RHSA-2003:159

5562

Patch, Vendor Advisory

php-mail-ascii-injection(9959)

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