Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in PHP - CVE-2007-3007
Published: August 29, 2022 / Updated: June 8, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU110394
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2007-3007
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
PHP 5 before 5.2.3 does not enforce the open_basedir or safe_mode restriction in certain cases, which allows context-dependent attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files by checking if the readfile function returns a string. NOTE: this issue might also involve the realpath function.
Affected software
PHP
How to mitigate CVE-2007-3007
Install update from vendor's website.
PHP - update to 5.2.3
External References
- http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41492
- http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_3.php
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00397.html
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-07/msg00006.html
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0023/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24259
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25456
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26048
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26231
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27110
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27102
- http://osvdb.org/36084