Use of Externally-Controlled Format String Affecting php package, versions [4.4.4,5.1.6]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (1st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335643
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Mar 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Mar 2009

CVE-2009-0754  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-134  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for php.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Externally-Controlled Format String. PHP 4.4.4, 5.1.6, and other versions, when running on Apache, allows local users to modify behavior of other sites hosted on the same web server by modifying the mbstring.func_overload setting within .htaccess, which causes this setting to be applied to other virtual hosts on the same server.

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