CVE-2021-3603 Information

Description

PHPMailer 6.4.1 and earlier contain a vulnerability that can result in untrusted code being called (if such code is injected into the host project’s scope by other means). If the $patternselect parameter to validateAddress() is set to ‘php’ (the default defined by PHPMailer::$validator) and the global namespace contains a function called php it will be called in preference to the built-in validator of the same name. Mitigated in PHPMailer 6.5.0 by denying the use of simple strings as validator function names.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer/commit/45f3c18dc6a2de1cb1bf49b9b249a9ee36a5f7f3 https://www.huntr.dev/bounties/1-PHPMailer/PHPMailer/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3YRMWGA4VTMXFB22KICMB7YMFZNFV3EJ/ https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FJYSOFCUBS67J3TKR74SD3C454N7VTYM/

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

8.1