CVE-2011-1144 (GCVE-0-2011-1144)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-03-03 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:14
VLAI
Summary
The installer in PEAR 1.9.2 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the package.xml file, related to the (1) download_dir, (2) cache_dir, (3) tmp_dir, and (4) pear-build-download directories. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1072.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2342 records in the last 180 days details
References
Date Public
2011-02-28 00:00
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      "status": "final",
      "title": "php-pear: symlink vulnerability in PEAR installer",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2011/cve-2011-1144.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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