CVE-2020-13625

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-13625
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-06-08 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:16:00 UTC
DescriptionPHPMailer before 6.1.6 contains an output escaping bug when the name of a file attachment contains a double quote character. This can result in the file type being misinterpreted by the receiver or any mail relay processing the message.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-116

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Application Phpmailer Project Phpmailer All All All All
Application Phpmailer Project Phpmailer All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1106-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1060-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Release PHPMailer 6.1.6 · PHPMailer/PHPMailer · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
USN-4505-1: PHPMailer vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
2020-05-26 Insufficient output escaping of attachment names · Advisory · PHPMailer/PHPMailer · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2244-1] libphp-phpmailer security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2306-1] libphp-phpmailer security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: php-PHPMailer-5.2.28-2.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: php-PHPMailer-5.2.28-2.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: php-PHPMailer-5.2.28-2.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: php-PHPMailer-5.2.28-2.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 199517 Ubuntu Security Notification for PHPMailer Vulnerabilities (USN-5956-1)
  • 501529 Alpine Linux Security Update for cacti
  • 504593 Alpine Linux Security Update for cacti
  • 690483 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for cacti (cd2dc126-cfe4-11ea-9172-4c72b94353b5)
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