Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in PHP - CVE-2012-0057
Published: February 2, 2012 / Updated: August 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU44347
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-0057
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 before 5.3.9 has improper libxslt security settings, which allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files via a crafted XSLT stylesheet that uses the libxslt output extension.
How to mitigate CVE-2012-0057
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c03360041
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00001.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/13/10
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/13/4
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/13/5
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/13/6
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/13/7
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/14/1
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/14/2
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/14/3
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/15/1
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/15/10
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/15/2
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/18/3
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.9
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48668
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2399
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54446
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72908