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CVE-2002-0985
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…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 3.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.0% · top 13% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
14
- 20030707 [OpenPKG-SA-2003.032] OpenPKG Security Advisory (php) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- DSA-168 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- php-mail-safemode-bypass(9966) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20020823 PHP: Bypass safe_mode and inject ASCII control chars with mail() (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- RHSA-2002:243 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:159 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- MDKSA-2003:082 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- SuSE-SA:2002:036 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- CLA-2002:545 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVAx_transferred
- RHSA-2002:213 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2002:248 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2002:244 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 2111 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- RHSA-2002:214 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2002-0974 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2002-0985)Record last updated .