Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting php package, versions [,4.4.5)[5.2.0,5.2.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.69% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335503
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Mar 2007
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Mar 2007

CVE-2007-1700  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 4.4.5, 5.2.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. The session extension in PHP 4 before 4.4.5, and PHP 5 before 5.2.1, calculates the reference count for the session variables without considering the internal pointer from the session globals, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string in the session_register after unsetting HTTP_SESSION_VARS and _SESSION, which destroys the session data Hashtable.

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