Improper Input Validation Affecting php package, versions [,5.3.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Attacked
EPSS
94.39% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335507
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 May 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 May 2012

CVE-2012-1823  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 5.3.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c in PHP before 5.3.12 and 5.4.x before 5.4.2, when configured as a CGI script (aka php-cgi), does not properly handle query strings that lack an = (equals sign) character, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by placing command-line options in the query string, related to lack of skipping a certain php_getopt for the 'd' case.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1