Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting php package, versions [,5.6.25)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335528
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed12 Sept 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Sep 2016

CVE-2016-7125  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 5.6.25 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection ext/session/session.c in PHP before 5.6.25 and 7.x before 7.0.10 skips invalid session names in a way that triggers incorrect parsing, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary-type session data by leveraging control of a session name, as demonstrated by object injection.

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