PHP-IMAP is a wrapper for common IMAP communication without the need to have the php-imap module installed / enabled. Prior to version 5.3.0, an unsanitized attachment filename allows any unauthenticated user to leverage a directory traversal vulnerability, which results in a remote code execution vulnerability. Every application that stores attachments with `Attachment::save()` without providing a `$filename` or passing unsanitized user input is affected by this attack. An attacker can send an email with a malicious attachment to the inbox, which gets crawled with `webklex/php-imap` or `webklex/laravel-imap`. Prerequisite for the vulnerability is that the script stores the attachments without providing a `$filename`, or providing an unsanitized `$filename`, in `src/Attachment::save(string $path, string $filename = null)`. In this case, where no `$filename` gets passed into the `Attachment::save()` method, the package would use a series of unsanitized and insecure input values from the mail as fallback. Even if a developer passes a `$filename` into the `Attachment::save()` method, e.g. by passing the name or filename of the mail attachment itself (from email headers), the input values never get sanitized by the package. There is also no restriction about the file extension (e.g. ".php") or the contents of a file. This allows an attacker to upload malicious code of any type and content at any location where the underlying user has write permissions. The attacker can also overwrite existing files and inject malicious code into files that, e.g. get executed by the system via cron or requests. Version 5.3.0 contains a patch for this issue.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - PHP-IMAP is a wrapper for common IMAP communication without the need to have the php-imap module installed     / enabled. Prior to version 5.3.0, an unsanitized attachment filename allows any unauthenticated user to     leverage a directory traversal vulnerability, which results in a remote code execution vulnerability.
    Every application that stores attachments with `Attachment::save()` without providing a `$filename` or     passing unsanitized user input is affected by this attack. An attacker can send an email with a malicious     attachment to the inbox, which gets crawled with `webklex/php-imap` or `webklex/laravel-imap`.
    Prerequisite for the vulnerability is that the script stores the attachments without providing a     `$filename`, or providing an unsanitized `$filename`, in `src/Attachment::save(string $path, string     $filename = null)`. In this case, where no `$filename` gets passed into the `Attachment::save()` method,     the package would use a series of unsanitized and insecure input values from the mail as fallback. Even if     a developer passes a `$filename` into the `Attachment::save()` method, e.g. by passing the name or     filename of the mail attachment itself (from email headers), the input values never get sanitized by the     package. There is also no restriction about the file extension (e.g. .php) or the contents of a file.
    This allows an attacker to upload malicious code of any type and content at any location where the     underlying user has write permissions. The attacker can also overwrite existing files and inject malicious     code into files that, e.g. get executed by the system via cron or requests. Version 5.3.0 contains a patch     for this issue. (CVE-2023-35169)

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

  - PHP-IMAP is a wrapper for common IMAP communication without the need to have the php-imap module installed
    / enabled. Prior to version 5.3.0, an unsanitized attachment filename allows any unauthenticated user to
    leverage a directory traversal vulnerability, which results in a remote code execution vulnerability.
    Every application that stores attachments with `Attachment::save()` without providing a `$filename` or
    passing unsanitized user input is affected by this attack. An attacker can send an email with a malicious
    attachment to the inbox, which gets crawled with `webklex/php-imap` or `webklex/laravel-imap`.
    Prerequisite for the vulnerability is that the script stores the attachments without providing a
    `$filename`, or providing an unsanitized `$filename`, in `src/Attachment::save(string $path, string
    $filename = null)`. In this case, where no `$filename` gets passed into the `Attachment::save()` method,
    the package would use a series of unsanitized and insecure input values from the mail as fallback. Even if
    a developer passes a `$filename` into the `Attachment::save()` method, e.g. by passing the name or
    filename of the mail attachment itself (from email headers), the input values never get sanitized by the
    package. There is also no restriction about the file extension (e.g. ".php") or the contents of a file.
    This allows an attacker to upload malicious code of any type and content at any location where the
    underlying user has write permissions. The attacker can also overwrite existing files and inject malicious
    code into files that, e.g. get executed by the system via cron or requests. Version 5.3.0 contains a patch
    for this issue. (CVE-2023-35169)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
262251	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-35169	Nessus	Misc.	critical
410022	SCA: security update for webklex/laravel-imap, webklex/php-imap (GHSA-47p7-xfcc-4pv9)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	critical
410022	SCA: security update for webklex/laravel-imap, webklex/php-imap (GHSA-47p7-xfcc-4pv9)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	critical

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