CVE-2021-21707 Affecting php package, versions [7.3.0,7.3.33)[7.4.0,7.4.26)[8.0.0,8.0.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHP-2335690
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Nov 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Nov 2021

CVE-2021-21707  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade php to version 7.3.33, 7.4.26, 8.0.13 or higher.

Overview

In PHP versions 7.3.x below 7.3.33, 7.4.x below 7.4.26 and 8.0.x below 8.0.13, certain XML parsing functions, like simplexml_load_file(), URL-decode the filename passed to them. If that filename contains URL-encoded NUL character, this may cause the function to interpret this as the end of the filename, thus interpreting the filename differently from what the user intended, which may lead it to reading a different file than intended.

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