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SCA: security update for phpmailer/phpmailer (GHSA-v5c9-mmw9-829q)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 419084

Description

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

 - html2text.php in Chuggnutt HTML to Text Converter, as used in PHPMailer before 5.2.10, RoundCube Webmail
 (roundcubemail) 0.2-1.alpha and 0.2-3.beta, Mahara, and AtMail Open 1.03, allows remote attackers to
 execute arbitrary code via crafted input that is processed by the preg_replace function with the eval
 switch. (CVE-2008-5619)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v5c9-mmw9-829q

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 419084

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 97.35

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2008-5619

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2008

Exploitable With

CANVAS (CANVAS)

Core Impact

Elliot (Roundcube 0.2beta RCE)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-5619

BID: 32799

cwe: CWE-94