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CVE-2009-4025
Argument injection vulnerability in the traceroute function in Traceroute.php in the Net_Traceroute package before 0.21.2 for PEAR allows…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 6.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 8 days later
· 8 days later
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.1% · top 6.4% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References14
- http://pear.php.net/advisory20091114-01.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-11617 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- GLSA-200911-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-12083 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Traceroute/download/0.21.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20091123 CVE request: Argument injections in multiple PEAR packages (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 37497 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 37094 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://blog.pear.php.net/2009/11/14/net_traceroute-and-net_ping-security-advisory/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2009-3321 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 37503 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2009-11551 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- nettraceroute-traceroute-command-execution(54391) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 60515 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_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-2009-3996 (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-2009-4025)Record last updated .