CVE-2017-20187
Magnesium-PHP Base.php formatEmailString injection
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- Updated
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- VulDB
Description
** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** A vulnerability was found in Magnesium-PHP up to 0.3.0. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is the function formatEmailString of the file src/Magnesium/Message/Base.php. The manipulation of the argument email/name leads to injection. Upgrading to version 0.3.1 is able to address this issue. The patch is identified as 500d340e1f6421007413cc08a8383475221c2604. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. VDB-244482 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
Timeline
ID reserved
By VulDB
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Low3.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 2.0 | Low2.7 | AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.83% · top 42% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Weakness
Affected products
Magnesium-PHP
- affected 0.1
- affected 0.2
- affected 0.3
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistfloriangaerber/magnesiumGHSA-8pp6-5qpw-85g3 (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://vuldb.com/?id.244482 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.244482 (opens in a new tab)signaturepermissions-requiredx_transferred
- https://github.com/floriangaerber/Magnesium-PHP/commit/500d340e1f6421007413cc08a8383475221c2604 (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
- https://github.com/floriangaerber/Magnesium-PHP/releases/tag/v0.3.1 (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-8pp6-5qpw-85g3 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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