Detections
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PHP 5.4.x < 5.4.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities
medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 6994
Synopsis
The remote web server uses a version of PHP that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.Description
PHP versions 5.4.x earlier than 5.4.1 are affected by the following vulnerabilities :- The '$_FILES' variable can be corrupted because the names of uploaded files are not properly validated. (CVE-2012-1172)
- The 'open_basedir' directive is not properly handled by the functions 'readline_write_history' and 'readline_read_history'.
- It's possible to bypass an HTTP response-splitting protection because the 'sapi_header_op()' function in main/SAPI.c does not properly determine a pointer during checks for encoded carriage return characters. (Bug #60227 / CVE-2012-4388)
Solution
Upgrade to PHP version 5.4.1 or later.See Also
http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-04-26-1
http://www.nessus.org/u?e81d4026
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54374
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 6994
Family: Web Servers
Published: 8/20/2013
Updated: 3/6/2019
Nessus ID: 58967
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.5
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5
Temporal Score: 4.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.3
Temporal Score: 4.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:php:php
Patch Publication Date: 4/26/2012
Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/26/2012
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2012-1172, CVE-2012-4388