Vulnerability in PHP Pear
CVE-2011-1144
The installer in PEAR 1.9.2 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the package.xml file, related to the (1) download_dir, (2) cache_dir, (3) tmp_dir, and (4) pear-build-download directories. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1072.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.003 (21.5th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 22nd percentile — 21.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- PHP Pear — versions 0.2.2, 0.9, 0.10
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/5 (mailing-list)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/7 (mailing-list)
- pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/8 (mailing-list)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65911 (vdb-entry)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/5 (mailing-list)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/4 (mailing-list)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/9 (mailing-list)