PT-2017-18045 · Joomla+1 · Joomla!+1

Conor Mcknight · Published 2017-04-25 · Updated 2017-05-03 · CVE-2017-7983

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Joomla! versions 1.5.0 through 3.6.5

Description The issue concerns the leakage of the used PHPMailer version in mail headers when sending mail using the JMail API.

Recommendations For versions 1.5.0 through 3.6.5, update to version 3.7.0 to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-7983

Affected Products

Joomla!

Phpmailer

References · 5

• https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/683-20170401-core-information-disclosure · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-7983 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7983 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7983 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/98016 · Note