Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in PHP - CVE-2008-5624
Published: October 11, 2018 / Updated: June 8, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU110334
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2008-5624
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: PHP Group
Affected software:
PHP
PHP
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
PHP 5 before 5.2.7 does not properly initialize the page_uid and page_gid global variables for use by the SAPI php_getuid function, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions via variable settings that are intended to be restricted to root, as demonstrated by a setting of /etc for the error_log variable.
How to mitigate CVE-2008-5624
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2
- http://osvdb.org/50483
- http://osvdb.org/52207
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35003
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35650
- http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/59
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0035
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1789
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:045
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.7
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498985/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501376/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32688
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47318