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Critical Updates — RCE Flaws Found in SwiftMailer, PhpMailer and ZendMail

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()3 min read4 · 2 reads
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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2016-10033
Command Injection RCE in PHPMailer (Ships with WordPress and Joomla)
9.8100%KEVPoC ×14
KEV
CVE-2016-10034
The setFrom function in the Sendmail adapter in the zend-mail component before 2.4.11, 2.5.x, 2.6.x, and 2.7.x before 2.7.2, and Zend Framework before 2.4.11…
9.838%PoC ×2
CVE-2016-10045
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…
9.898%PoC ×6
CVE-2016-10074
The mail transport (aka Swift_Transport_MailTransport) in Swift Mailer before 5.4.5 might allow remote attackers to pass extra parameters to the mail command…
9.844%PoC ×4

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A security researcher recently reported a critical vulnerability in one of the most popular open source PHP libraries used to send emails that allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the web server and compromise a web application.

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