CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-1172

5.8 MEDIUM Published 2012-05-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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