CVE-2007-1461
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.8 · CWE-264
7.8CVSS HIGH
Summary
The compress.bzip2:// URL wrapper provided by the bz2 extension in PHP before 4.4.7, and 5.x before 5.2.2, does not implement safemode or open_basedir checks, which allows remote attackers to read bzip2 archives located outside of the intended directories.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25056Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26235Advisory
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html
- http://us2.php.net/releases/4_4_7.php
- http://us2.php.net/releases/5_2_2.php
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_32_php.html
- http://www.php-security.org/MOPB/MOPB-21-2007.html