ubuntu · CVE-2016-10045

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-12-30 19:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:52:08 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-10045 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (libphp-phpmailer), 16 status rows across 16 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 11, ignored 2, released 2, DNE 1.

Description:

The isMail transport in PHPMailer before 5.2.20 might allow remote attackers to pass extra parameters to the mail command and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging improper interaction between the escapeshellarg function and internal escaping performed in the mail function in PHP. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2016-10033.

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