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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-10045: phpmailer Remote Code Execution

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-10045: phpmailer Remote Code Execution

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/30/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
06/17/2022

Description

The isMail transport in PHPMailer before 5.2.20 might allow remote attackers to pass extra parameters to the mail command and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging improper interaction between the escapeshellarg function and internal escaping performed in the mail function in PHP. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-10033.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-php-phpmailer

References

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