CVE-2011-1144

Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 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: 2011-03-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The installer in PEAR 1.9.2 and earlier allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the package.xml file, related to the (1) download_dir, (2) cache_dir, (3) tmp_dir, and (4) pear-build-download directories. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1072.

Affected products

php Pear: through 1.9.2; 0.2.2, 0.9, 0.10, 0.11, 0.90, 1.0 (+20)

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/8
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/9
http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=18056
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65911
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/4
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/5
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/7

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