CVE-2012-2335

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 32.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-05-11 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

php-wrapper.fcgi does not properly handle command-line arguments, which allows remote attackers to bypass a protection mechanism in PHP 5.3.12 and 5.4.2 and execute arbitrary code by leveraging improper interaction between the PHP sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c component and a query string beginning with a +- sequence.

Affected products

PHP: 5.3.12, 5.4.2

References

http://eindbazen.net/2012/05/php-cgi-advisory-cve-2012-1823/
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c%3Bh=a7ac26f0#l1569
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00003.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49014
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/520827
http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-05-06-1
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61910
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75652
https://h20564.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c03839862
http://eindbazen.net/2012/05/php-cgi-advisory-cve-2012-1823/
http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c%3Bh=a7ac26f0#l1569

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