Dogfood CRM up to 2.0.10 spell.php data os command injection

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Dogfood CRM up to 2.0.10. This affects an unknown part of the file spell.php. This manipulation of the argument data causes os command injection. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2009-20010. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present.

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A vulnerability was found in Dogfood CRM up to 2.0.10. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the file spell.php. The manipulation of the argument data with an unknown input leads to a os command injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-78. The product constructs all or part of an OS command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended OS command when it is sent to a downstream component. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Dogfood CRM version 2.0.10 contains a remote command execution vulnerability in the spell.php script used by its mail subsystem. The vulnerability arises from unsanitized user input passed via a POST request to the data parameter, which is processed by the underlying shell without adequate escaping. This allows attackers to inject arbitrary shell commands and execute them on the server. The flaw is exploitable without authentication and was discovered by researcher LSO.

The weakness was disclosed by LSO and aushack. It is possible to read the advisory at raw.githubusercontent.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2009-20010 since 08/28/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1202 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

It is possible to download the exploit at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:spell.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Exploit-DB (16917) and EUVD (EUVD-2009-5120). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Customer Relationship Management System

Vendor

• Dogfood

Name

• CRM

Version

• 2.0.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.2
• 2.0.3
• 2.0.4
• 2.0.5
• 2.0.6
• 2.0.7
• 2.0.8
• 2.0.9
• 2.0.10

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• end of life

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