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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-0831 Detail

Description

PHP before 5.3.10 does not properly perform a temporary change to the magic_quotes_gpc directive during the importing of environment variables, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct SQL injection attacks via a crafted request, related to main/php_variables.c, sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c, and sapi/fpm/fpm/fpm_main.c.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Evaluator Impact

As per: http://grokbase.com/t/php/php-internals/122ehfap93/about-cve-2012-0831-magic-quotes-gpc-remote-disable-vulnerability Version 5.3.10 and 5.3.11 are also vulnerable.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080037.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080041.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00013.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00016.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00001.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1307.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/48668 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/55078 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory 
http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=323016 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51954 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1358-1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73125 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/92454212/php5_5.3.2-1ubuntu4.13.diff.gz CVE, Inc., Red Hat Exploit  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-0831
NVD Published Date:
02/10/2012
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.