CVE-2014-5459

Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 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: yes
Published: 2014-09-27 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

The PEAR_REST class in REST.php in PEAR in PHP through 5.6.0 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) rest.cachefile or (2) rest.cacheid file in /tmp/pear/cache/, related to the retrieveCacheFirst and useLocalCache functions.

Affected products

openSUSE Evergreen: 11.4
Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.2
PHP: through 5.6.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00024.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00055.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/3
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759282
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00024.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00055.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/27/3
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759282

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