National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0796
Original release date:07/17/2012
Last revised:07/17/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
class.phpmailer.php in the PHPMailer library, as used in Moodle 1.9.x before 1.9.16, 2.0.x before 2.0.7, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 and other products, allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary e-mail headers via vectors involving a crafted (1) From: or (2) Sender: header.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git;a=commit;h=62988bf0bbc73df655f51884aaf1f523928abff9
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783532
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=194015
Type: Advisory
