National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-3007
Original release date:06/04/2007
Last revised:10/31/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
PHP 5 before 5.2.3 does not enforce the open_basedir or safe_mode restriction in certain cases, which allows context-dependent attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files by checking if the readfile function returns a string. NOTE: this issue might also involve the realpath function.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
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
Official Statement from Red Hat (06/07/2007)
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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External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2007-2215
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2007-0023
External Source: BID
Name: 24259
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_3.php
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200710-02
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27110
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27102
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26231
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26048
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25456
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 36084
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2007:044
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41492
Technical Details
- Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)