Privilege escalation in PHP - CVE-2014-0185

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Privilege escalation in PHP - CVE-2014-0185

Published: November 27, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU16083
CSH Severity: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0185
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
PHP
Software vendor:
PHP Group

Description

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain elevated privileges. The weakness exists due to sapi/fpm/fpm/fpm_unix.c in the FastCGI Process Manager (FPM) in PHP before 5.4.28 and 5.5.x before 5.5.12 uses 0666 permissions for the UNIX socket. A local attacker can gain elevated privileges via a crafted FastCGI client.

Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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