CVE-2016-10045 | Vulnetix

CVE-2016-10045 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL

The isMail transport in PHPMailer before 5.2.20 might allow remote attackers to pass extra parameters to the mail command and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging improper interaction between the escapeshellarg function and internal escaping performed in the mail function in PHP. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-10033.

EPSS 97.74% · 99.9th percentile

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.0

9.800000190734863

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score

97.74%

99.9th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS	libphp-phpmailer	0, 5.2.10+dfsg-1, 5.2.14+dfsg-1

Timeline

Dec 28, 2016 PoC Published
Dec 30, 2016 CVE Published
Jan 4, 2017 PoC Published
Jun 22, 2017 PoC Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-10045 third-party-advisory
https://legalhackers.com/advisories/PHPMailer-Exploit-Remote-Code-Exec-CVE-2016-10045-Vuln-Patch-Bypass.html third-party-advisory
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/12/28/1 third-party-advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/140286/PHPMailer-Remote-Code-Execution.html third-party-advisory
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Dec/81 third-party-advisory
https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/668-20161205-phpmailer-security-advisory.html third-party-advisory
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/releases/tag/v5.2.20 third-party-advisory
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/wiki/About-the-CVE-2016-10033-and-CVE-2016-10045-vulnerabilities third-party-advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40969/ third-party-advisory
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5956-1 vendor-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10045 third-party-advisory

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