CVE-2009-3559 (GCVE-0-2009-3559)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-11-23 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:31 Disputed
VLAI
Summary
main/streams/plain_wrapper.c in PHP 5.3.x before 5.3.1 does not recognize the safe_mode_include_dir directive, which allows context-dependent attackers to have an unknown impact by triggering the failure of PHP scripts that perform include or require operations, as demonstrated by a script that attempts to perform a require_once on a file in a standard library directory. NOTE: a reliable third party reports that this is not a vulnerability, because it results in a more restrictive security policy.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1082 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2009-11-19 00:00
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