PHP before 5.3.4 accepts the \0 character in a pathname,...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 1, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 31, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jan 18, 2011
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 1, 2022
Last updated
Jan 31, 2023
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.
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