CVE-2008-2051: PHP

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The escapeshellcmd API function in PHP before 5.2.6 has unknown impact and context-dependent attack vectors related to "incomplete multibyte chars."

Affected products

• PHP PHP: up to and including 5.2.5; version 5.0.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.0.3 only; version 5.0.4 only; …

Published 2008-05-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.