CVE-2010-1864

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-05-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The addcslashes function in PHP 5.2 through 5.2.13 and 5.3 through 5.3.2 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information (memory contents) by causing a userspace interruption of an internal function, related to the call time pass by reference feature.

Affected products

PHP: 5.2.0, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.3, 5.2.4, 5.2.5 (+10)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00000.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469208622507&w=2
http://php-security.org/2010/05/03/mops-2010-006-php-addcslashes-interruption-information-leak-vulnerability/index.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-09/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00000.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=133469208622507&w=2
http://php-security.org/2010/05/03/mops-2010-006-php-addcslashes-interruption-information-leak-vulnerability/index.html

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