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GHSA-738M-F33V-QC2R

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2020-03-05 22:09 – Updated: 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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CVE-2015-8476 (GCVE-0-2015-8476)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-12-16 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:20

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2277 records in the last 180 days details

References

8 references

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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/05/1	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/releases/t…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3416	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/78619	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/04/5	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

Date Public

2015-11-01 00:00

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