CVE-2014-5120

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 16.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-23 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

gd_ctx.c in the GD component in PHP 5.4.x before 5.4.32 and 5.5.x before 5.5.16 does not ensure that pathnames lack %00 sequences, which might allow remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via crafted input to an application that calls the (1) imagegd, (2) imagegd2, (3) imagegif, (4) imagejpeg, (5) imagepng, (6) imagewbmp, or (7) imagewebp function.

Affected products

PHP: 5.4.0, 5.4.0-beta2, 5.4.0-rc2, 5.4.1, 5.4.2, 5.4.3 (+61)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00024.html
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1327.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1765.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1766.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67730
https://support.apple.com/HT204659
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00024.html
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

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