CVE-2009-4023: PEAR

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Argument injection vulnerability in the sendmail implementation of the Mail::Send method (Mail/sendmail.php) in the Mail package 1.1.14 for PEAR allows remote attackers to read and write arbitrary files via a crafted $from parameter, a different vector than CVE-2009-4111.

Affected products

• PEAR PEAR: version 1.1.14 only

Published 2009-11-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.