ID:11589 - Exploit for Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in PHP - CVE-2010-1130

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Vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to corrupt data.

session.c in the session extension in PHP before 5.2.13, and 5.3.1, does not properly interpret ; (semicolon) characters in the argument to the session_save_path function, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass open_basedir and safe_mode restrictions via an argument that contains multiple ; characters in conjunction with a .. (dot dot).

Remediation