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high 7.5

CVE-2019-11458 json

Unsafe deserialization in SmtpTransport in CakePHP

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-qhrx-hcm6-pmrw , EUVD-2019-0800

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in SmtpTransport in CakePHP 3.7.6. An unserialized object with modified internal properties can trigger arbitrary file overwriting upon destruction.

Patch / fix

  • packagist cakephp/cakephp 3.5.18, 3.6.15, 3.7.7

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Exploit prediction

2.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist cakephp/cakephp
>=3.0.0, <3.5.18
>=3.6.0, <3.6.15
>=3.7.0, <3.7.7
3.5.18
3.6.15
3.7.7

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

Sources

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