PHP up to 5.1.0 IMAP

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in PHP. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component IMAP. Executing a manipulation can lead to an unknown weakness. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2006-1014. In addition, an exploit is available. You should disable the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in PHP (Programming Language Software). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown part of the component IMAP. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, and integrity. CVE summarizes:

Argument injection vulnerability in certain PHP 4.x and 5.x applications, when used with sendmail and when accepting remote input for the additional_parameters argument to the mb_send_mail function, allows context-dependent attackers to read and create arbitrary files by providing extra -C and -X arguments to sendmail. 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.

The bug was discovered 02/28/2006. The weakness was presented 02/28/2006 by Cdric Clerget (Website). The advisory is shared for download at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2006-1014 since 03/06/2006. The attack can be initiated remotely. A single authentication is necessary for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 17716 (PHP mb_send_mail() Function Parameter Security Bypass), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses and running in the context r. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165152 (SUSE Security Update for PHP 4, PHP 5 (SUSE-SA:2006:024)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at php.net.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (24962), Exploit-DB (27335), Tenable (17716), SecurityFocus (BID 16878†) and OSVDB (23534†). See VDB-2067, VDB-2465 and VDB-29013 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Physical: Partially
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Nessus ID: 17716
Nessus Name: PHP mb_send_mail() Function Parameter Security Bypass
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Patch: php.net

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Sourcesinfo

Product: php.org

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Cdric Clerget
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-1014 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-1014
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-2068
X-Force: 24962
SecurityFocus: 16878 - PHP Multiple Security Bypass Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 18694 - PHP "mb_send_mail()" and IMAP Functions Security Bypass, Less Critical
OSVDB: 23534 - PHP mb_send_mail() Function Parameter Restriction Bypass
Vulnerability Center: 14335 - PHP Mail Function Argument Injection Vulnerability, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-0772

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/03/2006 15:20
Updated: 06/08/2025 09:59
Changes: 03/03/2006 15:20 (81), 07/14/2019 20:34 (4), 06/08/2025 09:59 (26)
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