CVE-2008-3660

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-08-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

PHP 4.4.x before 4.4.9, and 5.x through 5.2.6, when used as a FastCGI module, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request with multiple dots preceding the extension, as demonstrated using foo..php.

Affected products

PHP: 4.4.0, 4.4.1, 4.4.2, 4.4.3, 4.4.4, 4.4.5 (+10)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234102
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-09/msg00004.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/31982
http://secunia.com/advisories/32148
http://secunia.com/advisories/32746
http://secunia.com/advisories/35074
http://secunia.com/advisories/35306
http://secunia.com/advisories/35650
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml

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