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SCA: security update for phpmailer/phpmailer (GHSA-398j-f7m7-795j)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434556

Description

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

 - class.phpmailer.php in the PHPMailer library, as used in Moodle 1.9.x before 1.9.16, 2.0.x before 2.0.7,
 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 and other products, allows remote authenticated users to inject
 arbitrary e-mail headers via vectors involving a crafted (1) From: or (2) Sender: header. (CVE-2012-0796)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-398j-f7m7-795j

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434556

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: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-0796

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 10/6/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/17/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0796

BID: 51450

cwe: CWE-94