CVE-2014-8731 (GCVE-0-2014-8731)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-23 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:26
VLAI
Summary
PHPMemcachedAdmin 1.2.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via vectors related "serialized data and the last part of the concatenated filename," which creates a file in webroot.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2014-11-12 00:00
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