GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist
GHSA-398j-f7m7-795j PHPMailer vulnerable to email header injection
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2012-0796
- Ecosystem
- Packagist
- Packages
- phpmailer/phpmailer
- Severity
- High
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94
- Reviewed
- 2022-10-06
Affected packages
• Packagist phpmailer/phpmailer: < 2.2.1 → fixed in 2.2.1
Description
Impact
Arbitrary additional email headers can be injected via crafted From or Sender headers.
Patches
Fixed in 2.2.1
Workarounds
Filter user-supplied values prior to using them in From or Sender properties.
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0796
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
• Open a private issue in the PHPMailer project
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2012-0796 class.phpmailer.php in the PHPMailer library, as used in Moodle 1.9.x before 1.9.16, 2.0.x before 2.0.7, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness
References
- https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/security/advisories/GHSA-398j-f7m7-795j web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0796 advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783532 web
- https://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git&a=commit&h=62988bf0bbc73df655f51884aaf1f523928abff9 web
- https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer package
- http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194015 web
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2421 web