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F5: CVE-2016-10045: K73926196: PHPMailer vulnerability CVE-2016-10045

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Feb 13, 2017
Added
Jun 17, 2026
Modified
Jun 17, 2026

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

f5-bigip-upgrade-latest
Title
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