{"answers":{"affected":"2 open source packages ship an affected version, including phpmailer/phpmailer. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-5619 exists.","fix":"Upgrade phpmailer/phpmailer to 5.2.10 or later.","what":"CVE-2008-5619 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail, published on 17 Dec 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2008-5619 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2008-5619 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail, published on 17 Dec 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-5619 exists.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- phpmailer/phpmailer (Packagist): affected all versions; fixed in 5.2.10\n- phpmailer/phpmailer (Packagist): affected all versions; fixed in 5.2.10\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-5619/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-5619/index.md)","id":"CVE-2008-5619","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-5619/index.md","name":"CVE-2008-5619","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2008-5619","GHSA-v5c9-mmw9-829q"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"PHP HTML to Text library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code via crafted input processed by the preg_replace function with the eval switch in the html2text.php library.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"code_injection"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"webmail","vendor":"roundcube"}],"cvss":{"score":10,"severity":"critical","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-94","name":"Improper Control of Generation of Code"}],"description":"html2text.php in Chuggnutt HTML to Text Converter, as used in PHPMailer before 5.2.10, RoundCube Webmail (roundcubemail) 0.2-1.alpha and 0.2-3.beta, Mahara, and AtMail Open 1.03, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted input that is processed by the preg_replace function with the eval switch.","ecosystems":["Packagist"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":2,"first_seen":"2008-12-22","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2008-12-22","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"7549","stars":null,"title":"Roundcube Webmail 0.2-3 Beta - Code Execution"},{"date":"2008-12-22","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"7553","stars":null,"title":"Roundcube Webmail 0.2b - Remote Code Execution"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"PHPMailer susceptible to arbitrary code execution","id":"CVE-2008-5619","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"Packagist","product":"roundcube:webmail","products":["roundcube:webmail"],"type":"code_injection","year":"2008"},"n_packages":2,"n_references":17,"next":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-5620"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"Packagist","fixed":["5.2.10"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"phpmailer/phpmailer","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-v5c9-mmw9-829q"},{"ecosystem":"Packagist","fixed":["5.2.10"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"phpmailer/phpmailer","purl":"pkg:composer/phpmailer/phpmailer","source":"GHSA-v5c9-mmw9-829q"}],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-5618"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2008-12-17","related":[{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Cross-Site Scripting","id":"CVE-2024-42009","kev_date_added":"2025-06-09","published":"2024-08-05"},{"cvss_score":7.2,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Cross-site Scripting","id":"CVE-2025-68461","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-12-18"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Command injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2024-37385","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-06-07"},{"cvss_score":9.3,"headline":"Cross-site scripting in n/a","id":"CVE-2024-42008","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-08-05"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Command injection in Webmail","id":"CVE-2026-74997","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-08-17"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-8114","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-04-29"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-07","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code via crafted input processed by the preg_replace function with the eval switch in the html2text.php library.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-5619/"}