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Unscored CVE-2008-2665 EUVD-2008-2660GHSA-f2j3-w598-jqhx

Directory traversal vulnerability in the posix_access function in PHP 5.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass safe_mode restric…

Published Jun 20, 2008 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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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