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CVE-2007-4652

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-09-04 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The session extension in PHP before 5.2.4 might allow local users to bypass open_basedir restrictions via a session file that is a symlink.

Affected products

• PHP: through 5.2.3; 1.0, 2.0, 2.0b10, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2 (+81)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/26642
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26822
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26838
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27102
• http://secunia.com/advisories/27377
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml
• http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.4
• http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_4.php
• http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0026/
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3023
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36387
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1693

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