CVE-2008-2665: Path Traversal
First published: Fri Jun 20 2008(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| PHP PHP | =5.2.6 |
Never miss a vulnerability like this again
Sign up to SecAlerts for real-time vulnerability data matched to your software, aggregated from hundreds of sources.
Reference Links
- http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/54
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29797
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020327
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3941
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0035
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35074
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35650
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32746
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43196
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501376/100/0/threaded
- collector/nvd-historical
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/author
- agent/severity
- agent/references
- agent/weakness
- agent/type
- agent/description
- agent/event
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/tags
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/php
- canonical/php php
- version/php php/5.2.6