CVE-2015-2180 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2015-2180?

CVE-2015-2180 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail, published on 30 Jan 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The DBMail driver in the Password plugin in Roundcube before 1.1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the password.

Weakness: CWE-74

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-2180?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Roundcube Webmail.

How do I fix CVE-2015-2180?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2015-2180 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-2180 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Roundcube Webmail

• CVE-2024-42009 RoundCube Webmail Cross-Site Scripting Exploited Critical 9.3
• CVE-2025-68461 RoundCube Webmail Cross-site Scripting Exploited High 7.2
• CVE-2008-5619 PHPMailer susceptible to arbitrary code execution Critical 10.0
• CVE-2024-37385 Command injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-42008 Cross-site scripting in n/a Critical 9.3

All Roundcube Webmail vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2180, GHSA-hp2w-q4f4-jq5w.