phpmailer/phpmailer · Security
PHPMailer susceptible to arbitrary code execution
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-v5c9-mmw9-829q
- CVE ID
- CVE-2008-5619
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
Description
html2text.php in Chuggnutt HTML to Text Converter, as used in PHPMailer before 5.2.10, RoundCube Webmail (roundcubemail) 0.2-1.alpha and 0.2-3.beta, Mahara, and AtMail Open 1.03, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted input that is processed by the preg_replace function with the eval switch.
CWEs
- CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5619 ↗
- https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/commit/8beacc646acb67c995aea10ac5585970efc7355a ↗
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7549 ↗
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7553 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00783.html ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00802.html ↗
- http://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=533 ↗
- http://osvdb.org/53893 ↗
- http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=898542 ↗
- http://trac.roundcube.net/changeset/2148 ↗
- http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1485618 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/12/12/1 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v5c9-mmw9-829q ↗