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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-10045): PHPMailer vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2016-10045): PHPMailer vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/30/2016
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
05/01/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libphp-phpmailer

References

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