CVE-2006-3016

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-06-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in session.c in PHP before 5.1.3 has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to "certain characters in session names," including special characters that are frequently associated with CRLF injection, SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and HTTP response splitting vulnerabilities. NOTE: while the nature of the vulnerability is unspecified, it is likely that this is related to a violation of an expectation by PHP applications that the session name is alphanumeric, as implied in the PHP manual for session_name().

Affected products

PHP Group Php: through 5.1.2

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0736.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19927
http://secunia.com/advisories/21050
http://secunia.com/advisories/22004
http://secunia.com/advisories/22069
http://secunia.com/advisories/22225
http://secunia.com/advisories/22440
http://secunia.com/advisories/22487
http://secunia.com/advisories/23247
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016306
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-221.htm

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