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CVE-2007-4538 (GCVE-0-2007-4538)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-08-27 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:01
VLAI
Summary
email_in.pl in Bugzilla 2.23.4 through 3.0.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the -f (From address) option to the Email::Send::Sendmail function, probably involving shell metacharacters.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=386860 x_refsource_MISC
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Date Public
2007-08-23 00:00
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