Detections
Analytics

SCA: security update for phpmailer/phpmailer (GHSA-6h78-85v2-mmch)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433725

Description

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

 - PHPMailer 1.7, when configured to use sendmail, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell
 commands via shell metacharacters in the SendmailSend function in class.phpmailer.php. (CVE-2007-3215)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6h78-85v2-mmch

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 433725

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/19/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.55

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-3215

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/2/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/11/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3215

BID: 24417