Is swiftmailer/swiftmailer 4.1 vulnerable?

Composer · 6 releases from 4.1.3 to 4.1.8 · latest swiftmailer/swiftmailer is 6.3.0 · checked 2 Nov 2026

Yes: 3 known advisories

Yes. swiftmailer/swiftmailer 4.1.8, the last 4.1 release, is affected by 3 known security advisories (2 critical, 1 medium), including CVE-2016-10074, CVE-2024-28859. Upgrade to 6.2.5 or later to fix all of them.

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Advisories affecting swiftmailer/swiftmailer 4.1.8

  • CriticalGHSA-4qpj-gxxg-jqg429 May 2024

    Swiftmailer Sendmail transport arbitrary shell execution

    Affected
    >=4.0.0 <5.2.1
    Fixed in
    5.2.1
  • MediumCVE-2024-28859GHSA-wjv8-pxr6-5f4r18 Mar 2024

    Gadget chain in Symfony 1 due to vulnerable Swift Mailer dependency

    Affected
    >=4.0.0 <6.2.5
    Fixed in
    6.2.5
  • CriticalCVE-2016-10074GHSA-pr44-4jfr-286m17 May 2022

    Swift Mailer mail transport Command Injection

    Affected
    <5.4.5
    Fixed in
    5.4.5

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