PHP 5.2.0/5.2.1 Mail Filter FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL unknown vulnerability

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in PHP 5.2.0/5.2.1 (Programming Language Software). Affected by this issue is the function FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL of the component Mail Filter. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

CRLF injection vulnerability in the FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL filter in ext/filter in PHP 5.2.0 and 5.2.1 allows context-dependent attackers to inject arbitrary e-mail headers via an e-mail address with a \n character, which causes a regular expression to ignore the subsequent part of the address string.

The bug was discovered 04/07/2007. The weakness was presented 04/07/2007 by Stefan Esser (Website). The advisory is available at vupen.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2007-1900 since 04/10/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 25373 (Slackware 10.2 / 11.0 / current : php5 (SSA:2007-152-01)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Slackware Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (33510) and Tenable (25373). See 3534 for similar entry.

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Nessus ID: 25373
Nessus Name: Slackware 10.2 / 11.0 / current : php5 (SSA:2007-152-01)
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OpenVAS ID: 58335
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1283-1 (php5)
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Sourcesinfo

Product: php.org

Advisory: vupen.com⛔
Researcher: Stefan Esser
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2007-1900 (🔍)
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X-Force: 33510
Vulnerability Center: 15269 - PHP before 5.2.3 E-Mail Headers Injection Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 23359 - PHP Filter_Var FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL Newline Injection Vulnerability
Secunia: 24824
OSVDB: 33962 - PHP ext/filter FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL Newline Injection
Vupen: ADV-2007-2016

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Created: 03/13/2015 14:56
Updated: 07/20/2019 09:42
Changes: 03/13/2015 14:56 (80), 07/20/2019 09:42 (3)
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