CVE-2002-1582: Mailreader.com

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

compose.cgi in Mailreader.com 2.3.30 and 2.3.31, when using Sendmail as the Mail Transfer Agent, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the RealEmail configuration variable, which is used to call Sendmail in network.cgi.

Affected products

• Mailreader.com Mailreader.com: version 2.3.30 only; version 2.3.31 only

Published 2004-12-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.