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phpmailer -- Remote Code Execution

Affected packages
phpmailer < 5.2.18
tt-rss < 26.12.2016.07.29

Details

VuXML ID c7656d4c-cb60-11e6-a9a5-b499baebfeaf
Discovery 2016-12-26
Entry 2016-12-26

Legal Hackers reports:

An independent research uncovered a critical vulnerability in PHPMailer that could potentially be used by (unauthenticated) remote attackers to achieve remote arbitrary code execution in the context of the web server user and remotely compromise the target web application.

To exploit the vulnerability an attacker could target common website components such as contact/feedback forms, registration forms, password email resets and others that send out emails with the help of a vulnerable version of the PHPMailer class.

References

CVE Name CVE-2016-10033
URL http://legalhackers.com/advisories/PHPMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-CVE-2016-10033-Vuln.html
URL https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/blob/master/SECURITY.md