CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-4433

7.5 HIGH Published 2006-08-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-08-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

PHP before 4.4.3 and 5.x before 5.1.4 does not limit the character set of the session identifier (PHPSESSID) for third party session handlers, which might make it easier for remote attackers to exploit other vulnerabilities by inserting PHP code into the PHPSESSID, which is stored in the session file. NOTE: it could be argued that this not a vulnerability in PHP itself, rather a design limitation that enables certain attacks against session handlers that do not account for this limitation.

Affected configurations

• php php 4.0 • php php 4.0.0 • php php 4.0.1 • php php 4.0.2 • php php 4.0.3 • php php 4.0.4 • php php 4.0.5 • php php 4.0.6 • php php 4.0.7 • php php 4.1.0 • php php 4.1.1 • php php 4.1.2 • php php 4.2 • php php 4.2.0 • php php 4.2.1 • php php 4.2.2 • php php 4.2.3 • php php 4.3.0 • php php 4.3.1 • php php 4.3.2 • php php 4.3.3 • php php 4.3.4 • php php 4.3.5 • php php 4.3.6 • php php 4.3.7 • php php 4.3.8 • php php 4.3.9 • php php 4.3.10 • php php 4.3.11 • php php 4.4.0 • php php 4.4.1 • php php 4.4.2 • php php 5.0 • php php 5.0.0 • php php 5.0.1 • php php 5.0.2 • php php 5.0.3 • php php 5.0.4 • php php 5.0.5 • php php 5.1.0 • php php 5.1.1 • php php 5.1.2

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