CVE-2008-5619

Chuggnutt HTML to Text Converter <5.2.10 - RCE

Title source: llm

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)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED

by Hunger · bashwebappsphp

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7553

View Code ZIP pw:eip

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED

by Jacobo Avariento · textwebappsphp

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7549

View Code ZIP pw:eip

References (17)

[Various Sources] http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=533

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://osvdb.org/53893

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/33145

[Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/33170

[Third Party Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/34789

[Vendor Advisory] http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=898542

[Exploit] http://trac.roundcube.net/changeset/2148

[Exploit] http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1485618

[Vendor Advisory] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00783.html

[Vendor Advisory] https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00802.html

[Patch] https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/commit/8beacc646acb67c995aea10ac5585970efc7355a

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499489/100/0/threaded

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7549

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7553

[Mailing List] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/12/1

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3418

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3419

Scores

EPSS 0.7769

EPSS Percentile 99.0%

Details

CWE

CWE-94

Status published

Products (3)

phpmailer/phpmailer 0 - 5.2.10Packagist

roundcube/webmail 0.2.1 alpha

roundcube/webmail 0.2.3 beta

Published Dec 17, 2008

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026