CVE-2009-4025
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 6.1%EU EUVD
Argument injection vulnerability in the traceroute function in Traceroute.php in the Net_Traceroute package before 0.21.2 for PEAR allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via the host parameter. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
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-78
- EPSS score
- 6.1% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-3996)
- Published
- November 29, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-3996 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- pear / pear
- pear / pear
- pear / pear
- pear / pear
References
- http://blog.pear.php.net/2009/11/14/net_traceroute-and-net_ping-security-advisory/(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://osvdb.org/60515
- http://pear.php.net/advisory20091114-01.txt(Vendor Advisory)
- http://pear.php.net/package/Net_Traceroute/download/0.21.2(Patch)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37497
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37503
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200911-06.xml
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/23/8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37094
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3321(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/54391
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg00998.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg01007.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg01110.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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