CVE-2009-4024 (GCVE-0-2009-4024)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-11-28 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:45
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2009-11-14 00:00
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            "url": "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-November/msg01152.html"
          }
        ],
        "sourceIdentifier": "secalert@redhat.com",
        "vulnStatus": "Modified",
        "weaknesses": [
          {
            "description": [
              {
                "lang": "en",
                "value": "CWE-94"
              }
            ],
            "source": "nvd@nist.gov",
            "type": "Primary"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

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