CVE-2020-13625 Insufficient output escaping of attachment names in PHPMailer

What is CVE-2020-13625?

CVE-2020-13625 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 8 Jun 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

PHPMailer before 6.1.6 contains an output escaping bug when the name of a file attachment contains a double quote character. This can result in the file type being misinterpreted by the receiver or any mail relay processing the message.

Weakness: CWE-116

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-13625?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including phpmailer/phpmailer and phpmailer. It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Phpmailer Project Phpmailer.

How do I fix CVE-2020-13625?

Upgrade phpmailer/phpmailer to 6.1.6 or later.

Is CVE-2020-13625 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-13625 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BIT-phpmailer-2020-13625, DEBIAN-CVE-2020-13625, DLA-2244-1, DLA-2306-1, GHSA-f7hx-fqxw-rvvj, MGASA-2020-0313 and 2 more.