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GHSA-8jc3-5p29-qgjx
No affected components available
Impact
Arbitrary local file inclusion via the $lang property, remotely exploitable if host application passes unfiltered user data into that property. The 3 CVEs listed are applications that used PHPMailer that were vulnerable to this problem.
Patches
It's not known exactly when this was fixed in the host applications, but it was fixed in PHPMailer 5.2.0.
Workarounds
Filter and validate user-supplied data before use.
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5734 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-3215 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2021 Example exploit: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/14893
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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