PHP < 5.3.11 Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 6995

Synopsis

The remote web server uses a version of PHP that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

PHP versions earlier than 5.3.11 are affected by the following vulnerabilities :

- During the import of environment variables, temporary changes to the 'magic_quotes_gpc' directive are not handled properly. This can lower the difficulty for SQL injection attacks. (CVE-2012-0831)

- The '$_FILES' variable can be corrupted because the names of uploaded files are not properly validated. (CVE-2012-1172)

- The 'open_basedir' directive is not properly handled by the functions 'readline_write_history' and 'readline_read_history'.

- The 'header()' function does not detect multi-line headers with a CR. (Bug #60227 / CVE-2011-1398)

Solution

Upgrade to PHP version 5.3.11 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e81d4026

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61043

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54374

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60227

http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-04-26-1

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.11

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 6995

Family: Web Servers

Published: 8/20/2013

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 58966

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:php:php

Patch Publication Date: 4/26/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/9/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1398, CVE-2012-0831, CVE-2012-1172

BID: 51954, 53403, 55297