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PHP 5.6.x < 5.6.39 Multiple vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 119764

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Synopsis

An application installed on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

According to its banner, the version of PHP running on the remote web server is 5.6.x prior to 5.6.39. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

 - An arbitrary command injection vulnerability exists in the imap_open function due to improper filters for mailbox names prior to passing them to rsh or ssh commands. An authenticated, remote attacker can exploit this by sending a specially crafted IMAP server name to cause the execution of arbitrary commands on the target system. (CVE-2018-19518)

 - A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability exists in ext/imap/php_imap.c. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this issue, via an empty string in the message argument to the imap_mail function, to cause the application to stop responding. (CVE-2018-19935)

 - A heap buffer over-read exists in the phar_parse_pharfile function.
 An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this to read allocated or unallocated memory past the actual data when trying to parse a .phar file. (CVE-2018-20783)

Solution

Upgrade to PHP version 5.6.39 or later.

See Also

http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.6.39

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 119764

File Name: php_5_6_39.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 12/19/2018

Updated: 5/31/2024

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Enable CGI Scanning: true

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-19518

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-20783

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:php:php

Required KB Items: www/PHP

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2018

Exploitable With

Metasploit (php imap_open Remote Code Execution)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19518, CVE-2018-19935, CVE-2018-20783

BID: 106018, 106143, 107121