Dawid Golunski discovered that Swift Mailer did not properly sanitize e-mail addresses in the mail transport. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to pass extra parameters to the mail command and execute arbitrary code.
USN-8986-1: Swift Mailer vulnerability
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