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CVE-2017-7983

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.3 · Information disclosure
5.3CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

In Joomla! 1.5.0 through 3.6.5 (fixed in 3.7.0), mail sent using the JMail API leaked the used PHPMailer version in the mail headers.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactLow
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)1%

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/683-20170401-core-information-disclosure ↗