CVE-2018-19296 describes an object injection vulnerability affecting PHPMailer versions before 5.2.27 and 6.x before 6.0.6, impacting products like Debian, Fedora, and WordPress. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) can be exploited remotely with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion has been observed, the underlying CWEs (CWE-1321, CWE-502) indicate a serious risk.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 5.2.27CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:phpmailer_project:phpmailer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:phpmailer_project:phpmailer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
33CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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