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CVE-2002-0253

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-05-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

PHP, when not configured with the "display_errors = Off" setting in php.ini, allows remote attackers to obtain the physical path for an include file via a trailing slash in a request to a directly accessible PHP program, which modifies the base path, causes the include directive to fail, and produces an error message that contains the path.

Affected products

• PHP: 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.1-patch2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5 (+3)

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101318944130790&w=2
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8122.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4063
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101318944130790&w=2
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8122.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4063

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