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SCA: security update for phpmailer/phpmailer (GHSA-738m-f33v-qc2r)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422156

Description

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)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-738m-f33v-qc2r

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 422156

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8476

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/5/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/1/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8476

BID: 78619

cwe: CWE-20