CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1172
5.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-05-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The file-upload implementation in rfc1867.c in PHP before 5.4.0 does not properly handle invalid [ (open square bracket) characters in name values, which makes it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service (malformed $_FILES indexes) or conduct directory traversal attacks during multi-file uploads by leveraging a script that lacks its own filename restrictions.
Affected configurations
• php php (<= 5.3.10)
• 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
• php php 5.1.3
• php php 5.1.4
• php php 5.1.5
• php php 5.1.6
• php php 5.2.0
• php php 5.2.1
• php php 5.2.2
• php php 5.2.3
• php php 5.2.4
• php php 5.2.5
• php php 5.2.6
• php php 5.2.7
• php php 5.2.8
• php php 5.2.9
• php php 5.2.10
• php php 5.2.11
• php php 5.2.12
• php php 5.2.13
• php php 5.2.14
• php php 5.2.15
• php php 5.2.16
• php php 5.2.17
• php php 5.3.0
• php php 5.3.1
• php php 5.3.2
• php php 5.3.3
• php php 5.3.4
• php php 5.3.5
• php php 5.3.6
• php php 5.3.7
• php php 5.3.8
• php php 5.3.9
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://isisblogs.poly.edu/2011/08/11/php-not-properly-checking-params/ Exploit
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html lists.apple.com
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080037.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080041.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080070.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00007.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00011.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134012830914727&w=2 marc.info
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/13/4 openwall.com
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501 support.apple.com
- http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_4/main/rfc1867.c?r1=321664&r2=321663&pathrev=321664 Patch
- http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=321664 svn.php.net
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2465 www.debian.org
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.4.0 www.php.net
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48597 Exploit
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49683 bugs.php.net
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54374 Exploit
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55500 bugs.php.net
- https://nealpoole.com/blog/2011/10/directory-traversal-via-php-multi-file-uploads/ Exploit
- https://students.mimuw.edu.pl/~ai292615/php_multipleupload_overwrite.pdf Exploit
- http://isisblogs.poly.edu/2011/08/11/php-not-properly-checking-params/ Exploit
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00004.html lists.apple.com
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080037.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080041.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-May/080070.html lists.fedoraproject.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00007.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-05/msg00011.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134012830914727&w=2 marc.info
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/13/4 openwall.com
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5501 support.apple.com
- http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_4/main/rfc1867.c?r1=321664&r2=321663&pathrev=321664 Patch
- http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=321664 svn.php.net
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2465 www.debian.org
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.4.0 www.php.net
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48597 Exploit
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49683 bugs.php.net
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54374 Exploit
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55500 bugs.php.net
- https://nealpoole.com/blog/2011/10/directory-traversal-via-php-multi-file-uploads/ Exploit
- https://students.mimuw.edu.pl/~ai292615/php_multipleupload_overwrite.pdf Exploit