CVE-2015-4642

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-78 OS Command Injections

Publication date:

16/05/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

The escapeshellarg function in ext/standard/exec.c in PHP before 5.4.42, 5.5.x before 5.5.26, and 5.6.x before 5.6.10 on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via a crafted string to an application that accepts command-line arguments for a call to the PHP system function.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.80 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

9.80

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

Vector 2.0

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

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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

Base Score 2.0

10.00

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php::::::::		5.4.41 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.9:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.11:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.12:::::::*

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CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows::::::::
cpe:2.3:a:php:php::::::::		5.4.41 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.2:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.3:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.5:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.6:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.7:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.8:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.9:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.10:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.11:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.12:::::::*

CVE-2015-4642

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools