Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 2 public exploits for CVE-2008-5619. PoCs published by Hunger, Jacobo Avariento.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a preg_replace() vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail <= 0.2-beta, allowing remote code execution via crafted input to html2text.php. It uses base64-encoded payloads and netcat for interaction.
Description
html2text.php in Chuggnutt HTML to Text Converter, as used in PHPMailer before 5.2.10, RoundCube Webmail (roundcubemail) 0.2-1.alpha and 0.2-3.beta, Mahara, and AtMail Open 1.03, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted input that is processed by the preg_replace function with the eval switch.
Exploits (2)
This exploit targets a preg_replace() vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail <= 0.2-beta, allowing remote code execution via crafted input to html2text.php. It uses base64-encoded payloads and netcat for interaction.
The exploit demonstrates a PHP code injection vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail's HTML-to-text conversion library. It leverages the insecure use of preg_replace with the 'e' modifier to execute arbitrary PHP code, such as phpinfo(), via crafted POST data.