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php-mail — security advisory
Argument injection vulnerability in Mail/sendmail.php in the Mail package 1.1.14, 1.2.0b2, and possibly other versions for PEAR allows remote attackers to read and write arbitrary files via a crafted $recipients parameter, and possibly other parameters, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-4023.
- Products
- php-mail
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.1.14-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2009-4111
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:40 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Argument injection vulnerability in Mail/sendmail.php in the Mail package 1.1.14, 1.2.0b2, and possibly other versions for PEAR allows remote attackers to read and write arbitrary files via a crafted $recipients parameter, and possibly other parameters, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-4023.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4111
php-mail
Fixed versions: 1.1.14-2
php-mail
Fixed versions: 1.1.14-2
php-mail
Fixed versions: 1.1.14-2
Complete source record
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