Privilege escalation in PHP - CVE-2014-0185

Vulnerability identifier: #VU16083

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 8.5 [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]

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0185

CWE-ID: CWE-264

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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.

PHP

Gentoo Linux
Slackware Linux
php5 (Ubuntu package)
php (Alpine package)
dev-lang/php

Install updates from vendor's website.

- addressed in versions 5.4.28, 5.5.12
php5 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.25, 5.3.10-1ubuntu3.12
php (Alpine package) - update to 5.3.28-r3
dev-lang/php - update to 5.5.16

• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67060

• Ubuntu update for PHP
• Slackware Linux update for php
• Privilege escalation in php (Alpine package)
• Gentoo update for PHP