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Insufficient output escaping of attachment names in PHPMailer

Affected Packages	Affected Versions	Fixed Versions
packagist:phpmailer/phpmailer	< 6.1.6	6.1.6
1,306 Dependent packages 19,318 Dependent repositories 79,187,334 Downloads total Affected Version Ranges All affected versions 5.2.2, 5.2.4, 5.2.5, 5.2.6, 5.2.7, 5.2.8, 5.2.9, 5.2.10, 5.2.11, 5.2.12, 5.2.13, 5.2.14, 5.2.15, 5.2.16, 5.2.17, 5.2.18, 5.2.19, 5.2.20, 5.2.21, 5.2.22, 5.2.23, 5.2.24, 5.2.25, 5.2.26, 5.2.27, 5.2.28, 6.0.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 6.0.3, 6.0.4, 6.0.5, 6.0.6, 6.0.7, 6.1.0, 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3, 6.1.4, 6.1.5 All unaffected versions 6.1.6, 6.1.7, 6.1.8, 6.2.0, 6.3.0, 6.4.0, 6.4.1, 6.5.0, 6.5.1, 6.5.2, 6.5.3, 6.5.4, 6.6.0, 6.6.1, 6.6.2, 6.6.3, 6.6.4, 6.6.5, 6.7.1, 6.8.0, 6.8.1, 6.9.0, 6.9.1, 6.9.2, 6.9.3

Impact

CWE-116: Incorrect output escaping.

An attachment added like this (note the double quote within the attachment name, which is entirely valid):

$mail->addAttachment('/tmp/attachment.tmp', 'filename.html";.jpg');

Will result in a message containing these headers:

Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="filename.html";.jpg"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="filename.html";.jpg"

The attachment will be named filename.html, and the trailing ";.jpg" will be ignored. Mail filters that reject .html attachments but permit .jpg attachments may be fooled by this.

Note that the MIME type itself is obtained automatically from the source filename (in this case attachment.tmp, which maps to a generic application/octet-stream type), and not the name given to the attachment (though these are the same if a separate name is not provided), though it can be set explicitly in other parameters to attachment methods.

Patches

Patched in PHPMailer 6.1.6 by escaping double quotes within the name using a backslash, as per RFC822 section 3.4.1, resulting in correctly escaped headers like this:

Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="filename.html\";.jpg"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="filename.html\";.jpg"

Workarounds

Reject or filter names and filenames containing double quote (") characters before passing them to attachment functions such as addAttachment().

References

CVE-2020-13625.
PHPMailer 6.1.6 release

For more information

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Identifiers

GHSA-f7hx-fqxw-rvvj

CVE-2020-13625

Risk

Severity

High

EPSS

EPSS Percentage: 0.02307

EPSS Percentile: 0.83834

Classification

General

Source

GitHub Advisory Database

Origin

Unspecified

Repository

https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer

Date and time

Published

about 5 years ago

Updated

over 2 years ago

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