CVE-2008-2665 (GCVE-0-2008-2665)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-06-20 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 09:05
VLAI
Summary
Directory traversal vulnerability in the posix_access function in PHP 5.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions via a .. (dot dot) in an http URL, which results in the URL being canonicalized to a local filename after the safe_mode check has successfully run.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2008-06-17 00:00
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