Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in PHPMailer before 5.2.14 allow attackers to inject arbitrary SMTP commands via CRLF sequences in an (1) email address to the validateAddress function in class.phpmailer.php or (2) SMTP command to the sendCommand function in class.smtp.php, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-0796.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Multiple CRLF injection vulnerabilities in PHPMailer before 5.2.14 allow attackers to inject arbitrary
    SMTP commands via CRLF sequences in an (1) email address to the validateAddress function in
    class.phpmailer.php or (2) SMTP command to the sendCommand function in class.smtp.php, a different
    vulnerability than CVE-2012-0796. (CVE-2015-8476)

New upstream release: fixes CVE-2015-8476.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Takeshi Terada discovered a vulnerability in PHPMailer, a PHP library for email transfer, used by many CMSs. The library accepted email addresses and SMTP commands containing line breaks, which can be abused by an attacker to inject messages.

It was discovered that there was a header injection vulnerability in libphp-phpmailer, am email transfer library for PHP.

For Debian 6 Squeeze, this issue has been fixed in libphp-phpmailer version 5.1-1+deb6u11.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
422156	SCA: security update for phpmailer/phpmailer (GHSA-738m-f33v-qc2r)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
422156	SCA: security update for phpmailer/phpmailer (GHSA-738m-f33v-qc2r)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
89363	Fedora 23 : php-PHPMailer-5.2.14-1.fc23 (2015-abf9659276)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
89214	Fedora 22 : php-PHPMailer-5.2.14-1.fc22 (2015-39522bb8c9)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
87331	Debian DSA-3416-1 : libphp-phpmailer - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
87268	Debian DLA-363-1 : libphp-phpmailer security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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CVE-2015-8476

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