USN-4505-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2020-13625)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2020-09-16 15:25 – Updated: 2026-02-10 04:41 – Source website
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Summary
libphp-phpmailer vulnerability
Details

Elar Lang discovered that PHPMailer did not properly escape double quote characters in filenames. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this with a crafted filename to bypass attachment filters that are based on matching filename extensions. (CVE-2020-13625)

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  "id": "USN-4505-1",
  "modified": "2026-02-10T04:41:55Z",
  "published": "2020-09-16T15:25:17Z",
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