CVE-2018-19296

moderate-risk
Published 2018-11-16

PHPMailer before 5.2.27 and 6.x before 6.0.6 is vulnerable to an object injection attack.

Do I need to act?

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1.6% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 8.8/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (6)

Affected Vendors

Debian Wordpress Fedoraproject Phpmailer Project

References (12)

Release Notes https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/releases/tag/v5.2.27
Release Notes https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/releases/tag/v6.0.6
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00020.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4351
Release Notes https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/releases/tag/v5.2.27
Release Notes https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/releases/tag/v6.0.6
Mailing List https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/12/msg00020.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedorapro...
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4351
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moderate-risk
Severity 30/34 · Critical
Exploitability 4/34 · Minimal
Exposure 13/34 · Low