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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-2665 Detail

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the posix_access function in PHP 5.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions via a .. (dot dot) in an http URL, which results in the URL being canonicalized to a local filename after the safe_mode check has successfully run.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (06/26/2008)

We do not consider these to be security issues. For more details see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=169857#c1 and http://www.php.net/security-note.php

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html CVE, MITRE
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2 CVE, MITRE
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/32746 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/35074 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/35650 CVE, MITRE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml CVE, MITRE
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/54 CVE, MITRE Exploit 
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3941 CVE, MITRE
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549 CVE, MITRE
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0035 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501376/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29797 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020327 CVE, MITRE
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html CVE, MITRE US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43196 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-2665
NVD Published Date:
06/19/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE