Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in PHP - CVE-2011-4718
Published: August 13, 2013 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42670
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2011-4718
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 read and manipulate data.
Session fixation vulnerability in the Sessions subsystem in PHP before 5.5.2 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions by specifying a session ID.
Affected software
PHP
Gentoo Linux
dev-lang/php
Gentoo Linux
dev-lang/php
How to mitigate CVE-2011-4718
Install update from vendor's website.
dev-lang/php - update to 5.5.16