National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-1015
Original release date:03/07/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Argument injection vulnerability in certain PHP 3.x, 4.x, and 5.x applications, when used with sendmail and when accepting remote input for the additional_parameters argument to the mail function, allows remote attackers to read and create arbitrary files via the sendmail -C and -X arguments. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a class of technology-specific vulnerability, instead of a particular instance; if so, then this should not be included in CVE.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):
Impact Subscore:
4.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification
Official Statement from Red Hat (08/30/2006)
We do not consider these to be security issues:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169857#c1
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External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20060301 Re: (PHP) mb_send_mail security bypass
External Source: BID
Name: 16878
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2006:024
External Source: SREASON
Name: 517
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 19979
