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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-2665

Original release date:06/20/2008

Last revised:07/15/2009

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Directory traversal vulnerability in the posix_access function in PHP 5.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions via a .. (dot dot) in an http URL, which results in the URL being canonicalized to a local filename after the safe_mode check has successfully run.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:5.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information

Vendor Statments (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (06/26/2008): We do not consider these to be security issues. For more details see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169857#c1 and http://www.php.net/security-note.php

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA09-133A

Name: TA09-133A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html

External Source: XF

Name: php-posixaccess-security-bypass(43196)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/43196

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2009-1297

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1020327

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020327

External Source: BID

Name: 29797

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29797

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090302 rPSA-2009-0035-1 php php-cgi php-imap php-mcrypt php-mysql php-mysqli php-pgsql php-soap php-xsl php5 php5-cgi php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-mysqli php5-pear php5-pgsql php5-soap php5-xsl

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/501376/100/0/threaded

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0035

Hyperlink:http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0035

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549

Hyperlink:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549

External Source: SREASON

Name: 3941

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3941

External Source: SREASONRES

Name: 20080617 PHP 5.2.6 posix_access() (posix ext) safe_mode bypass