CVE-2021-21707 Affecting php81 package, versions <8.1.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE319-PHP81-6110836
  • published8 Dec 2023
  • disclosed29 Nov 2021

Introduced: 29 Nov 2021

CVE-2021-21707  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.19 php81 to version 8.1.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream php81 package and not the php81 package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.19 relevant fixed versions and status.

In PHP versions 7.3.x below 7.3.33, 7.4.x below 7.4.26 and 8.0.x below 8.0.13, certain XML parsing functions, like simplexml_load_file(), URL-decode the filename passed to them. If that filename contains URL-encoded NUL character, this may cause the function to interpret this as the end of the filename, thus interpreting the filename differently from what the user intended, which may lead it to reading a different file than intended.

CVSS Scores

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