National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5624

Overview

PHP 5 before 5.2.7 does not properly initialize the page_uid and page_gid global variables for use by the SAPI php_getuid function, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions via variable settings that are intended to be restricted to root, as demonstrated by a setting of /etc for the error_log variable.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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Vulnerable software and versions

Configuration 1

OR

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.0

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.1

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.2

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.3

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.4

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.5

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.6

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.2.7

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.1.6

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.1.5

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.1.4

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.1.3

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.1.2

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.1.1

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.1.0

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.0.5

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.0.4

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.0.3

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.0.2

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.0.1

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.0.0

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.0.0:rc3

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.0.0:rc2

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.0.0:rc1

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.0.0:beta4

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.0.0:beta3

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.0.0:beta2

* cpe:/a:php:php:5.0.0:beta1

* Denotes Vulnerable Software

* Changes related to vulnerability configurations