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Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2016-10033)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 30, 2016
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in PHPMailer that could potentially be used by unauthenticated remote attackers to achieve remote arbitrary code execution in the context of the web server user and remotely compromise the target web application. This issue can be triggered by passing a maliciously crafted expression to the vulnerable application.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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