CVE-2006-7243

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

18/01/2011

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

PHP before 5.3.4 accepts the \0 character in a pathname, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by placing a safe file extension after this character, as demonstrated by .php\0.jpg at the end of the argument to the file_exists function.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:php:php::::::::		5.3.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:1.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:2.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:2.0b10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.9:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.10:::::::*

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CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:php:php::::::::		5.3.3 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:1.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:2.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:2.0b10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.9:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:3.0.10:::::::*

CVE-2006-7243

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools