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Fedora 29 : php-PHPMailer (2018-a2e9bd6eae)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120666

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

**Version 5.2.27**

 - SECURITY Fix potential object injection vulnerability.
 **CVE-2018-19296**. Reported by Sehun Oh of cyberone.kr.

Note that the 5.2 branch is deprecated and will not receive security updates after 31st December 2018.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected php-PHPMailer package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-a2e9bd6eae

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 120666

File Name: fedora_2018-a2e9bd6eae.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 7/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

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

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:29, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:php-phpmailer

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/27/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/16/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19296