CVE-2008-5619
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 58.6%EU EUVD
html2text.php in Chuggnutt HTML to Text Converter, as used in PHPMailer before 5.2.10, RoundCube Webmail (roundcubemail) 0.2-1.alpha and 0.2-3.beta, Mahara, and AtMail Open 1.03, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted input that is processed by the preg_replace function with the eval switch.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-94
- EPSS score
- 58.6% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-5286)
- Published
- December 17, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-5286 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- roundcube / webmail
- roundcube / webmail
References
- http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=533
- http://osvdb.org/53893
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33145
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33170(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34789
- http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=898542(Vendor Advisory)
- http://trac.roundcube.net/changeset/2148(Exploit)
- http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1485618(Exploit)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/12/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499489/100/0/threaded
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3418
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3419
- https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/commit/8beacc646acb67c995aea10ac5585970efc7355a
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7549
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7553
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00783.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00802.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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