Vulnerability in Oracle Solaris
CVE-2014-5459
The PEAR_REST class in REST.php in PEAR in PHP through 5.6.0 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) rest.cachefile or (2) rest.cacheid file in /tmp/pear/cache/, related to the retrieveCacheFirst and useLocalCache functions.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 3.6 (Low). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.006 (48.8th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 49th percentile — 48.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Oracle Solaris — versions 11.2
- PHP
- openSUSE Evergreen — versions 11.4
- openSUSE — versions 12.3, 13.1
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00055.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/3 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html (Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00024.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)