Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:20175223000
Revision Date:2017-01-16Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-5223 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - medium.
Description:An issue was discovered in PHPMailer before 5.2.22. PHPMailer's msgHTML method applies transformations to an HTML document to make it usable as an email message body. One of the transformations is to convert relative image URLs into attachments using a script-provided base directory. If no base directory is provided, it resolves to /, meaning that relative image URLs get treated as absolute local file paths and added as attachments. To form a remote vulnerability, the msgHTML method must be called, passed an unfiltered, user-supplied HTML document, and must not set a base directory.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-5223
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) is installed.
  • AND NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'libphp-phpmailer' package in bionic is not affected (note: '5.2.14+dfsg-2.3+deb9u1build0.18.04.1').
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