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FreeBSD: VID-7AE0BE99-D8BB-11E6-9B7F-D43D7E971A1B (CVE-2017-5223): phpmailer -- Remote Code Execution

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FreeBSD: VID-7AE0BE99-D8BB-11E6-9B7F-D43D7E971A1B (CVE-2017-5223): phpmailer -- Remote Code Execution

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
01/10/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/13/2017
Modified
05/07/2019

Description

An issue was discovered in PHPMailer before 5.2.22. PHPMailer's msgHTML method applies transformations to an HTML document to make it usable as an email message body. One of the transformations is to convert relative image URLs into attachments using a script-provided base directory. If no base directory is provided, it resolves to /, meaning that relative image URLs get treated as absolute local file paths and added as attachments. To form a remote vulnerability, the msgHTML method must be called, passed an unfiltered, user-supplied HTML document, and must not set a base directory.

Solution(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-phpmailer
  • freebsd-upgrade-package-tt-rss

References

  • CVE-2017-5223
  • DLA-817-1

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