Vulnerability record · CVE-2009-4024 · published 29 November 2009
CVE-2009-4024: Pear code injection vulnerability
Pear · Pear
Argument injection vulnerability in the ping function in Ping.php in the Net_Ping package before 2.4.5 for PEAR allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via the host parameter. NOTE: this has also been reported as a shell metacharacter problem.
Description
Argument injection vulnerability in the ping function in Ping.php in the Net_Ping package before 2.4.5 for PEAR allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via the host parameter. NOTE: this has also been reported as a shell metacharacter problem.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products
1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.
References
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Related vulnerabilities
Same products first, then exploited flaws of the same weakness class.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2009-4024), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.