CVE-2013-6501

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-74

Description

The default soap.wsdl_cache_dir setting in (1) php.ini-production and (2) php.ini-development in PHP through 5.6.7 specifies the /tmp directory, which makes it easier for local users to conduct WSDL injection attacks by creating a file under /tmp with a predictable filename that is used by the get_sdl function in ext/soap/php_sdl.c.

Affected products

PHP: through 5.6.7
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 11.0-sp3

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00003.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72530
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1009103
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-10
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00003.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72530
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1009103
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-10

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