Description
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OS commands if the IMAP server name is untrusted input (e.g., entered by a user of a web application) and if rsh has been replaced by a program with different argument semantics.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.
Published: 2018-11-25
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 93.9% High
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1608-1 php5 security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1700-1 uw-imap security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2866-1 uw-imap security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4353-1 php7.0 security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4160-1 UW IMAP vulnerability
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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Debian Debian Linux
Php Php
Uw-imap Project Uw-imap
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T11:37:11.529Z

Reserved: 2018-11-25T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-19518

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-11-25T10:29:00.250

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:58:04.993

Link: CVE-2018-19518

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-11-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-19518 - Bugzilla

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