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Critical · 9.8 CVE-2026-93012 EUVD-2026-84006GHSA-j6jw-3jf9-6hc7

Email::Sender::Transport::Sendmail versions before 2.602 for Perl allow arbitrary command execution on Windows sending a message whose envelope address reaches the shell in _sendmail_pipe

Published Sep 21, 2026 · Updated Sep 22, 2026 · Assigned by CPANSec

Description

Email::Sender::Transport::Sendmail versions before 2.602 for Perl allow arbitrary command execution on Windows sending a message whose envelope address reaches the shell in _sendmail_pipe.

On MSWin32 the envelope sender and every recipient go into a single command string, which open() passes to a shell. Every other platform gets the list form, which runs sendmail directly. When the caller supplies no envelope, Email::Sender::Simple takes the recipients from the To and Cc headers and the sender from the From header.

An attacker who controls one of those header addresses runs commands as the sending process.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— Email-Sender < 2.602 2.602

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 libemail-sender-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS libemail-sender-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS libemail-sender-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS libemail-sender-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS libemail-sender-perl No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libemail-sender-perl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS libemail-sender-perl No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed perl-Email-Sender 2.603.0-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12466-1

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