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CVE-2002-0985

HIGHEPSS 85th pctl
7.5
CVSS v2
NVD

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in the mail function for PHP 4.x to 4.2.2 may allow attackers to bypass safe mode restrictions and modify command line arguments to the MTA (e.g. sendmail) in the 5th argument to mail(), altering MTA behavior and possibly executing commands.

CWE-88

How to fix

No published remediation has been found for this vulnerability's affected products yet.

Mitigation guidance may be in the linked vendor advisories in the References section below.

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

2.95%probability of exploitation in 30 days
85thpercentile

Elevated risk: more likely to be exploited than 85% of all known CVEs.

References

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-16.