Information disclosure in PHP

CVE-2008-5498

Array index error in the imageRotate function in PHP 5.2.8 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to read the contents of arbitrary memory locations via a crafted value of the third argument (aka the bgd_color or clrBack argument) for an indexed image.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.088 (95.0th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 95.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2008-5498: held from 0.088 to 0.088.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.088 · newest: 0.088 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • PHP — versions 5, 5.0, 5.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

References