CVE-2014-2020

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-02-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

ext/gd/gd.c in PHP 5.5.x before 5.5.9 does not check data types, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by using a (1) string or (2) array data type in place of a numeric data type, as demonstrated by an imagecrop function call with a string for the x dimension value, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-7226.

Affected products

PHP: through 5.5.8; 5.5.0-alpha1, 5.5.0-alpha2, 5.5.0-alpha3, 5.5.0-alpha4, 5.5.0-alpha5, 5.5.0-alpha6 (+13)

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2126-1
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66356
https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/2938329ce19cb8c4197dec146c3ec887c6f61d01
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2126-1
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=66356
https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/2938329ce19cb8c4197dec146c3ec887c6f61d01

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