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SCA: security update for phpmailer/phpmailer (GHSA-7w4p-72j7-v7c2)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423360

Description

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

 - PHPMailer before 5.2.27 and 6.x before 6.0.6 is vulnerable to an object injection attack. (CVE-2018-19296)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7w4p-72j7-v7c2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423360

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 97.02

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-2018-19296

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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: 3/5/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/16/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19296