Security restrictions bypass in PHP - CVE-2016-10397

 

Security restrictions bypass in PHP - CVE-2016-10397

Published: December 19, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9694
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10397
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: PHP Group
Affected software:
PHP

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions on the target system.

The weakness exists due to incorrect handling of various URI components in the URL parse. A remote attacker can supply specially crafted URI components and bypass hostname-specific URL checks.

How to mitigate CVE-2016-10397

Update to version 5.6.28 or 7.0.13.

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