CVE-2018-19518

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OS commands if the IMAP server name is untrusted input (e.g., entered by a user of a web application) and if rsh has been replaced by a program with different argument semantics.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.

• CWE-88

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106018Broken Link
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042157Broken Link
• https://antichat.com/threads/463395/#post-4254681Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.debian.org/913775Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.debian.org/913835Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.debian.org/913836Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76428Exploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77153Exploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77160Vendor Advisory
• https://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e5bfea64c81ae34816479bb05d17cdffe45adddb
• https://github.com/Bo0oM/PHP_imap_open_exploit/blob/master/exploit.phpExploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00006.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00001.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00031.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-57Third Party Advisory
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181221-0004/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4160-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4353Third Party Advisory
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45914/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/22/3Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106018Broken Link
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042157Broken Link
• https://antichat.com/threads/463395/#post-4254681Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.debian.org/913775Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.debian.org/913835Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.debian.org/913836Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76428Exploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77153Exploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77160Vendor Advisory
• https://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e5bfea64c81ae34816479bb05d17cdffe45adddb
• https://github.com/Bo0oM/PHP_imap_open_exploit/blob/master/exploit.phpExploit, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00006.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00001.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00031.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-57Third Party Advisory
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181221-0004/Third Party Advisory
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4160-1/Third Party Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4353Third Party Advisory
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45914/Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/11/22/3Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory

Published

Nov 25, 2018

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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