CVE-2008-5624

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

PHP 5 before 5.2.7 does not properly initialize the page_uid and page_gid global variables for use by the SAPI php_getuid function, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions via variable settings that are intended to be restricted to root, as demonstrated by a setting of /etc for the error_log variable.

PHP 5 before 5.2.7 does not properly initialize the page_uid and page_gid global variables for use by the SAPI php_getuid function, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions via variable settings that are intended to be restricted to root, as demonstrated by a setting of /etc for the error_log variable.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

PHP

First reported 16 years ago

2008-12-17 17:30:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-11 20:56:00

Affected Software

PHP PHP 5.0.0

5.0.0

PHP PHP 5.0.0 Beta1

5.0.0

PHP PHP 5.0.0 Beta2

5.0.0

PHP PHP 5.0.0 Beta3

5.0.0

PHP PHP 5.0.0 Beta4

5.0.0

PHP PHP 5.0.0 RC1

5.0.0

PHP PHP 5.0.0 RC2

5.0.0

PHP PHP 5.0.0 RC3

5.0.0

PHP PHP 5.0.1

5.0.1

PHP PHP 5.0.2

5.0.2

PHP PHP 5.0.3

5.0.3

PHP PHP 5.0.4

5.0.4

PHP PHP 5.0.5

5.0.5

PHP PHP 5.1.0

5.1.0

PHP PHP 5.1.1

5.1.1

PHP PHP 5.1.2

5.1.2

PHP PHP 5.1.3

5.1.3

PHP 5.1.4

5.1.4

PHP PHP 5.1.5

5.1.5

PHP PHP 5.1.6

5.1.6

PHP 5.2.0

5.2.0

PHP 5.2.1

5.2.1

PHP 5.2.2

5.2.2

PHP 5.2.3

5.2.3

PHP 5.2.4

5.2.4

PHP 5.2.5

5.2.5

PHP 5.2.6

5.2.6

PHP 5.2.7

5.2.7

References

SSRT090085

HPSBUX02465

50483

52207

35003

35650

20081205 PHP 5.2.6 SAPI php_getuid() overload

Exploit

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

DSA-1789

MDVSA-2009:045

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.7

20081206 SecurityReason: PHP 5.2.6 SAPI php_getuid() overload

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

32688

php-getuid-safemode-bypass(47318)

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