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GHSA-6h78-85v2-mmch
No affected components available
PHPMailer before 1.7.4, when configured to use sendmail, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands via shell metacharacters in the SendmailSend function in class.phpmailer.php.
Impact
Shell command injection, remotely exploitable if host application does not filter user data appropriately.
Patches
Fixed in 1.7.4
Workarounds
Filter and validate user-supplied data before putting in the into the Sender property.
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-3215
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
- Open a private issue in the PHPMailer project
Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.
No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.
Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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