CVE-2008-5624

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-12-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

PHP 5 before 5.2.7 does not properly initialize the page_uid and page_gid global variables for use by the SAPI php_getuid function, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions via variable settings that are intended to be restricted to root, as demonstrated by a setting of /etc for the error_log variable.

Affected products

PHP: 5.0.0, 5.0.0-beta1, 5.0.0-beta2, 5.0.0-beta3, 5.0.0-beta4, 5.0.0-rc1 (+22)

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2
http://osvdb.org/50483
http://osvdb.org/52207
http://secunia.com/advisories/35003
http://secunia.com/advisories/35650
http://securityreason.com/achievement_securityalert/59
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0035
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1789
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:045
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.2.7
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498985/100/0/threaded

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