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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS0zOThqLWY3bTctNzk1as4AAvLp

PHPMailer vulnerable to email header injection

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

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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: 12 months ago
Updated: 8 months ago

Identifiers: GHSA-398j-f7m7-795j, CVE-2012-0796
References:

• https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/security/advisories/GHSA-398j-f7m7-795j
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0796
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783532
• http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=62988bf0bbc73df655f51884aaf1f523928abff9
• http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194015
• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2421
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-398j-f7m7-795j

Affected Packages