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PHPMailer "Sender" Arbitrary Command Execution
Secunia Advisory: SA25626
Release Date: 2007-06-12
Last Update: 2007-06-15
Popularity: 9,590 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:PHPMailer 1.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Thor Larholm has discovered a vulnerability in PHPMailer, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

Input passed to the Sender property in the PHPMailer class is not properly sanitised before being used as a command line argument. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary shell commands.

Successful exploitation requires that the PHP script using PHPMailer is configured to send e-mails with the Sendmail method, and that the script does not sanitise data before storing it in the Sender property.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.73. Other versions may also be affected.

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