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CVE-2018-19518observed exploitation

CVE-2018-19518

82Vexday Risk Score

Patch now. It exploitation observed by VulnCheck and has a working public exploit.

ssvc Actepss 95%
from disclosure to weapon4 days
Published on NVDNov 25
1st PoC+4d
metasploitOct 23
VulnCheck+1542d
exploitation probability
95%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesVulnCheck
5 public exploit(s)
University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007f on UNIX, as used in imap_open() in PHP and other products, launches an rsh command (by means of the imap_rimap function in c-client/imap4r1.c and the tcp_aopen function in osdep/unix/tcp_unix.c) without preventing argument injection, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands if the IMAP server name is untrusted input (e.g., entered by a user of a web application) and if rsh has been replaced by a program with different argument semantics. For example, if rsh is a link to ssh (as seen on Debian and Ubuntu systems), then the attack can use an IMAP server name containing a "-oProxyCommand" argument.
Affected products
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