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CVE-2011-1072

Date: March 2, 2011

The installer in PEAR before 1.9.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the package.xml file, related to the (1) download_dir, (2) cache_dir, (3) tmp_dir, and (4) pear-build-download directories, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-2519.

Language: PHP

Severity Score

4.0

Related Resources (23)

Url: http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=308687

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/5

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65721

Url: http://pear.php.net/advisory-20110228.txt

Url: http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1072

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46605

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/12

Url: http://news.php.net/php.pear.cvs/61264

Url: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546164

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/3

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1072

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2011-1072

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:187

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1741.html

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/9

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/8

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/7

Url: http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=18056

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/43533

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/5

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/4

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-1072

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-1072

Severity Score

4.0

Weakness Type (CWE)

Link Following

CWE-59

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	4.0
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	3.3
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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Date: March 2, 2011

Language: PHP

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