CVE-2007-1461

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-03-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The compress.bzip2:// URL wrapper provided by the bz2 extension in PHP before 4.4.7, and 5.x before 5.2.2, does not implement safemode or open_basedir checks, which allows remote attackers to read bzip2 archives located outside of the intended directories.

Affected products

PHP: through 4.4.6; 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4, 5.0.5 (+69)

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/25056
http://secunia.com/advisories/26235
http://us2.php.net/releases/4_4_7.php
http://us2.php.net/releases/5_2_2.php
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_32_php.html
http://www.php-security.org/MOPB/MOPB-21-2007.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22954
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2732
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172

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