CVE-2004-0542
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2004-06-10 04:00
Modified
2024-08-08 00:24
Severity ?
Summary
PHP before 4.3.7 on Win32 platforms does not properly filter all shell metacharacters, which allows local or remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, overwrite files, and access internal environment variables via (1) the "%", "|", or ">" characters to the escapeshellcmd function, or (2) the "%" character to the escapeshellarg function.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=108Not Applicable
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.php.net/release_4_3_7.phpPatch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16331Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Impacted products
n/an/a
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