CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-4018
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-11-29
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The proc_open function in ext/standard/proc_open.c in PHP before 5.2.11 and 5.3.x before 5.3.1 does not enforce the (1) safe_mode_allowed_env_vars and (2) safe_mode_protected_env_vars directives, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute programs with an arbitrary environment via the env parameter, as demonstrated by a crafted value of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
Affected configurations
• php php (<= 5.2.10)
• php php 1.0
• php php 2.0
• php php 2.0b10
• php php 3.0
• php php 3.0.1
• php php 3.0.2
• php php 3.0.3
• php php 3.0.4
• php php 3.0.5
• php php 3.0.6
• php php 3.0.7
• php php 3.0.8
• php php 3.0.9
• php php 3.0.10
• php php 3.0.11
• php php 3.0.12
• php php 3.0.13
• php php 3.0.14
• php php 3.0.15
• php php 3.0.16
• php php 3.0.17
• php php 3.0.18
• php php 4
• 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 4.4.3
• php php 4.4.4
• php php 4.4.5
• php php 4.4.6
… and 26 more
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49026 Exploit, Patch
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127680701405735&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125886770008678&w=2 Patch
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125897935330618&w=2 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40262 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41480 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41490 secunia.com
- http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=286360 Patch
- http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_2/ext/standard/proc_open.c?r1=286360&r2=286359&pathrev=286360 Patch
- http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/ext/standard/proc_open.c?r1=286360&r2=286359&pathrev=286360 Patch
- http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02512995 www.itrc.hp.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:303 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/23/15 Patch
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php www.php.net
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37138 www.securityfocus.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7256 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49026 Exploit, Patch
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127680701405735&w=2 marc.info
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125886770008678&w=2 Patch
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125897935330618&w=2 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40262 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41480 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41490 secunia.com
- http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&revision=286360 Patch
- http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_2/ext/standard/proc_open.c?r1=286360&r2=286359&pathrev=286360 Patch
- http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/ext/standard/proc_open.c?r1=286360&r2=286359&pathrev=286360 Patch
- http://www.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02512995 www.itrc.hp.com
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:303 www.mandriva.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/23/15 Patch
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php www.php.net
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37138 www.securityfocus.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7256 oval.cisecurity.org