CVE-2014-9767

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-05-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the ZipArchive::extractTo function in ext/zip/php_zip.c in PHP before 5.4.45, 5.5.x before 5.5.29, and 5.6.x before 5.6.13 and ext/zip/ext_zip.cpp in HHVM before 3.12.1 allows remote attackers to create arbitrary empty directories via a crafted ZIP archive.

Affected products

Hiphop Virtual Machine For Php Project Hiphop Virtual Machine For Php: through 3.12
PHP: through 5.4.45; 5.5.0, 5.5.1, 5.5.2, 5.5.3, 5.5.4, 5.5.5 (+33)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00052.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00056.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00057.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00058.html
http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/16/20
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76652
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035311
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2952-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2952-2
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=67996

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