Directory Traversal Affecting php package, versions [,5.4.44)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.6% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335367
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 Jan 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 Jan 2016

CVE-2015-6833  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 5.4.44 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Directory Traversal. Directory traversal vulnerability in the PharData class in PHP before 5.4.44, 5.5.x before 5.5.28, and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a ZIP archive entry that is mishandled during an extractTo call.

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