CVE-2010-4335

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 55.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-01-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The _validatePost function in libs/controller/components/security.php in CakePHP 1.3.x through 1.3.5 and 1.2.8 allows remote attackers to modify the internal Cake cache and execute arbitrary code via a crafted data[_Token][fields] value that is processed by the unserialize function, as demonstrated by modifying the file_map cache to execute arbitrary local files.

Affected products

Cakefoundation Cakephp: 1.3.0
cakephp: 1.2.8, 1.3-dev, 1.3.0-alpha, 1.3.0-beta, 1.3.0-rc1, 1.3.0-rc2 (+7)

References

http://malloc.im/CakePHP-unserialize.txt
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/95847/burnedcake.py.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/42211
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8026
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16011
http://www.osvdb.org/69352
https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/e431e86aa4301ced4273dc7919b59362cbb353cb
http://malloc.im/CakePHP-unserialize.txt
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/95847/burnedcake.py.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/42211
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8026
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16011

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