What is CVE-2015-3640?

CVE-2015-3640 is a high-severity vulnerability in Phpmybackuppro, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-07-21.

How severe is CVE-2015-3640?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

RCE in Phpmybackuppro

CVE-2015-3640

phpMyBackupPro 2.5 and earlier does not properly escape the "." character in request parameters, which allows remote authenticated users with knowledge of a web-accessible and web-writeable directory on the target system to inject and execute arbitrary PHP scripts by injecting scripts via the path, filename, and dirs parameters to scheduled.php, and making requests to injected scripts.

Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)

EPSS: 0.012 (65.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Phpmybackuppro
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-3640?: CVE-2015-3640 is a high-severity vulnerability in Phpmybackuppro, classified under Code Injection. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-07-21.
How severe is CVE-2015-3640?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.