CVE-2009-3557

Published Nov 23, 2009

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description
The tempnam function in ext/standard/file.c in PHP before 5.2.12 and 5.3.x before 5.3.1 allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions, and create files in group-writable or world-writable directories, via the dir and prefix arguments.
Source
secalert@redhat.com
NVD status
Modified

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Hype score
Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
5
Impact score
2.9
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-264

Vendor comments

  • Red HatWe do not consider safe_mode / open_basedir restriction bypass issues being security sensitive. For more details see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169857#c1 and http://www.php.net/security-note.php

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