Vulnerability intelligence

CVE-2018-19518

University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007f on UNIX, as used in imap_open() in PHP and other products, launches an rsh command (by means of the imap_rimap function in c-client/imap4r1.c and the tcp_aopen function in osdep/unix/tcp_unix.c) without preventing argument injection, which might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands if the IMAP server name is untrusted input (e.g., entered by a user of a web application) and if rsh has been replaced by a program with different argument semantics. For example, if rsh is a link to ssh (as seen on Debian and Ubuntu systems), then the attack can use an IMAP server name containing a "-oProxyCommand" argument.

CVSS Score

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Unrated

EPSS — Exploit Probability

96%

Riskier than 100% of all CVEs · checked 2026-10-11

Exploitation

Not in CISA KEV

KEV does not include every exploited vulnerability

Remediation

Patch available

Vendor fix published

NVD entry Vendor patch PoC / advisory

1 article across 1 outlet · first covered Aug 27, 2026 · latest Aug 27, 2026

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