Improper Input Validation Affecting php package, versions [,5.4.40)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.87% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335217
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed16 May 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 May 2016

CVE-2015-3411  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 5.4.40 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. PHP before 5.4.40, 5.5.x before 5.5.24, and 5.6.x before 5.6.8 does not ensure that pathnames lack %00 sequences, which might allow remote attackers to read or write to arbitrary files via crafted input to an application that calls (1) a DOMDocument load method, (2) the xmlwriter_open_uri function, (3) the finfo_file function, or (4) the hash_hmac_file function, as demonstrated by a filename\0.xml attack that bypasses an intended configuration in which client users may read only .xml files.

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