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ghsa-738m-f33v-qc2r

Vulnerability from github

Published

2020-03-05 22:09

Modified

2020-03-05 21:57

Summary

SMTP Injection in PHPMailer

Details

Impact

Attackers could inject arbitrary SMTP commands via by exploiting the fact that valid email addresses may contain line breaks, which are not handled correctly in some contexts.

Patches

Fixed in 5.2.14 in this commit.

Workarounds

Manually strip line breaks from email addresses before passing them to PHPMailer.

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8476

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open a private issue in the PHPMailer project

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    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2020-03-05T21:57:18Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "LOW"
  },
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  "modified": "2020-03-05T21:57:18Z",
  "published": "2020-03-05T22:09:19Z",
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    },
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  "summary": "SMTP Injection in PHPMailer"
}

CVE-2015-8476 (GCVE-0-2015-8476)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2015-12-16 21:00

Modified

2024-08-06 08:20

Severity ?

CWE

Summary

Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in PHPMailer before 5.2.14 allow attackers to inject arbitrary SMTP commands via CRLF sequences in an (1) email address to the validateAddress function in class.phpmailer.php or (2) SMTP command to the sendCommand function in class.smtp.php, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-0796.

References

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	https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/commit/6687a96a18b8f12148881e4ddde795ae477284b0	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177139.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/05/1	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
	https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/releases/tag/v5.2.14	x_refsource_CONFIRM
	http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3416	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/177130.html	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA
	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78619	vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/04/5	mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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ghsa-738m-f33v-qc2r

Vulnerability from github

Impact

Patches

Workarounds

References

For more information

CVE-2015-8476 (GCVE-0-2015-8476)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

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