CVE-2008-5619

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Published 2022-05-14 · Modified 2024-12-05

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

1.0

Description

html2text.php in Chuggnutt HTML to Text Converter, as used in PHPMailer before 5.2.10, RoundCube Webmail (roundcubemail) 0.2-1.alpha and 0.2-3.beta, Mahara, and AtMail Open 1.03, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted input that is processed by the preg_replace function with the eval switch.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-7549 webapps php verified

Jacobo Avariento · 2008-12-22

Roundcube Webmail 0.2-3 Beta - Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-7553 webapps php verified

Hunger · 2008-12-22

Roundcube Webmail 0.2b - Remote Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.1.1-9`
sid	Fixed	`0.1.1-9`
forky	Fixed	`0.1.1-9`
bullseye	Fixed	`0.1.1-9`
bookworm	Fixed	`0.1.1-9`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Packagist	phpmailer/phpmailer	`<5.2.10`	`5.2.10`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.