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Alpine: php5-phpmailer: security update to 5.2.4-r1

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 406301

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - The mailSend function in the isMail transport in PHPMailer before 5.2.18 might allow remote attackers to
 pass extra parameters to the mail command and consequently execute arbitrary code via a \" (backslash
 double quote) in a crafted Sender property. (CVE-2016-10033)

 - 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. (CVE-2016-10045)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-10033

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-10045

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 406301

Version: Revision 1.38

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 5/27/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

Percentile: 99.71

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-10045

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/25/2016

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (PHPMailer Sendmail Argument Injection)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-10033, CVE-2016-10045

BID: 95108, 95130