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CVE-2009-4024

CRITICAL CVSS: 10.0 Published: 2009-11-29 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in the ping function in Ping.php in the Net_Ping package before 2.4.5 for PEAR allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via the host parameter. NOTE: this has also been reported as a shell metacharacter problem.

Affected Platforms

Pear Pear

Weakness Type

CWE-94

References