CVE-2008-2665

Description

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43196

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3941

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/35650

http://secunia.com/advisories/35074

http://secunia.com/advisories/32746

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3