Arbitrary Command Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libphp-phpmailer  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
92.62% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-LIBPHPPHPMAILER-623327
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed30 Dec 2016

Introduced: 30 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-10034  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libphp-phpmailer package and not the libphp-phpmailer package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The setFrom function in the Sendmail adapter in the zend-mail component before 2.4.11, 2.5.x, 2.6.x, and 2.7.x before 2.7.2, and Zend Framework before 2.4.11 might allow remote attackers to pass extra parameters to the mail command and consequently execute arbitrary code via a " (backslash double quote) in a crafted e-mail address.