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CVE-2008-1734

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-04-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Interpretation conflict in PHP Toolkit before 1.0.1 on Gentoo Linux might allow local users to cause a denial of service (PHP outage) and read contents of PHP scripts by creating a file with a one-letter lowercase alphabetic name, which triggers interpretation of a certain unquoted [a-z] argument as a matching shell glob for this name, rather than interpretation as the literal [a-z] regular-expression string, and consequently blocks the launch of the PHP interpreter within the Apache HTTP Server.

Affected products

• gentoo Php Toolkit: through 1.0; 1.0, 1.0-rc2

References

• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209535
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-19.xml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28844
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41928
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209535
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-19.xml
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28844
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41928

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