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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-5424

Original release date:10/12/2007

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

The disable_functions feature in PHP 4 and 5 allows attackers to bypass intended restrictions by using an alias, as demonstrated by using ini_alter when ini_set is disabled.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:7.5 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.4

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (10/16/2007)

Red Hat does not consider this to be a security issue. The function behaves as documented. Furthermore, the function shouldn’t be considered a security feature, for reasons described at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332451#c3 and http://www.php.net/security-note.php

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External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20071010 Vulnerabilities digest

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/482006/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://securityvulns.ru/Sdocument67.html

Hyperlink:http://securityvulns.ru/Sdocument67.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://securityvulns.com/news/PHP/alias-pb.html

Hyperlink:http://securityvulns.com/news/PHP/alias-pb.html

External Source: SREASON

Name: 3216

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3216