RCE in Joomla Joomla\!
CVE-2016-10045
The isMail transport in PHPMailer before 5.2.20 might allow remote attackers to pass extra parameters to the mail command and consequently execute arbitrary code by leveraging improper interaction between the escapeshellarg function and in…
Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)
EPSS: 0.931 (99.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
Affected products
- Joomla Joomla\!
- Phpmailer_project Phpmailer
- Wordpress
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- 42221 (exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
- 40969 (Exploit, exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
- 20161228 PHPMailer < 5.2.20 Remote Code Execution PoC 0day Exploit (CVE-2016-10045) (Bypass of the CVE-2016-1033 patch) (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- [oss-security] 20161228 Re: PHPMailer < 5.2.18 Remote Code Execution [updated advisory] [CVE-2016-10033] (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Patch, Mailing List)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- 40986 (exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2016-10045?
- CVE-2016-10045 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Joomla Joomla\!, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2016-12-30.
- How severe is CVE-2016-10045?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2016-10045 known to be exploited?
- 147 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.