CVE-2011-0441

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 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: 2011-03-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The Debian GNU/Linux /etc/cron.d/php5 cron job for PHP 5.3.5 allows local users to delete arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a directory under /var/lib/php5/.

Affected products

PHP: 5.3.5

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618489
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-php/php.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d09fd04ed7bfcf7f008360c6a42025108925df09
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:069
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46928
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0910
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66180
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618489
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-php/php.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d09fd04ed7bfcf7f008360c6a42025108925df09
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:069
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46928
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0910
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/66180

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