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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2008-5619 in the critical feed json

PHPMailer susceptible to arbitrary code execution

published 2008-12-17 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-v5c9-mmw9-829q , EUVD-2022-5286

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
58.6%
EPSS 58.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.1%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • packagist phpmailer/phpmailer 5.2.10
  • roundcube Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.1.1-9

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5619

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-5619 updated

roundcubemail: Remotely exploitable code injection vulnerability

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-7553)

Exploit prediction

58.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-7553 Roundcube Webmail 0.2b - Remote Code Execution webapps, 2008-12-22
  • EDB-7549 Roundcube Webmail 0.2-3 Beta - Code Execution webapps, 2008-12-22
  • trac.roundcube.net http://trac.roundcube.net/changeset/2148 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • trac.roundcube.net http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1485618 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist phpmailer/phpmailer
<5.2.10
5.2.10

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

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