module
PHPMailer Sendmail Argument Injection
| Disclosed | Created |
|---|---|
| Dec 26, 2016 | May 30, 2018 |
Disclosed
Dec 26, 2016
Created
May 30, 2018
Description
PHPMailer versions up to and including 5.2.19 are affected by a
vulnerability which can be leveraged by an attacker to write a file with
partially controlled contents to an arbitrary location through injection
of arguments that are passed to the sendmail binary. This module
writes a payload to the web root of the webserver before then executing
it with an HTTP request. The user running PHPMailer must have write
access to the specified WEB_ROOT directory and successful exploitation
can take a few minutes.
vulnerability which can be leveraged by an attacker to write a file with
partially controlled contents to an arbitrary location through injection
of arguments that are passed to the sendmail binary. This module
writes a payload to the web root of the webserver before then executing
it with an HTTP request. The user running PHPMailer must have write
access to the specified WEB_ROOT directory and successful exploitation
can take a few minutes.
Authors
Dawid Golunski
Spencer McIntyre
Spencer McIntyre
Platform
PHP
Architectures
php
References
Module Options
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