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CVE-2009-4023

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.5)—

Argument injection vulnerability in the sendmail implementation of the Mail::Send method (Mail/sendmail.php) in the Mail package 1.1.14 for PEAR allows remote attackers to read and write arbitrary files via a crafted $from parameter, a different vector than CVE-2009-4111.

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

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