Debian DLA-2244-1 : libphp-phpmailer security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 137371

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that there was an escaping issue in libphp-phpmailer, an email generation utility class for the PHP programming language.

The `Content-Type` and `Content-Disposition` headers could have permitted file attachments that bypassed attachment filters which match on filename extensions. For more information, please see the following URL :

https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/security/advisories/GHSA-f7hx-f qxw-rvvj

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in libphp-phpmailer version 5.2.9+dfsg-2+deb8u6.

We recommend that you upgrade your libphp-phpmailer packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected libphp-phpmailer package.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 137371

File Name: debian_DLA-2244.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/12/2020

Updated: 3/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-13625

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libphp-phpmailer, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/11/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/8/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-13625

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