CVE-2007-1718 is a critical CRLF injection vulnerability affecting the mail function in PHP versions 4.0.0 through 4.4.6 and 5.0.0 through 5.2.1. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary email headers, potentially leading to spam attacks, by manipulating the Subject or To parameters with specific control character sequences. The vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a severe risk. It can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and no authentication required, allowing for complete integrity compromise (e.g., header injection) without impacting confidentiality or availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog and lacking active Metasploit or Nuclei modules, an exploit for PHP 5.2.1 demonstrating folded mail header injection is available on ExploitDB. Despite this, there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.0:beta_4_patch1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:php:php:4.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
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