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CVE-2016-6639

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-09-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-254

Description

Cloud Foundry PHP Buildpack (aka php-buildpack) before 4.3.18 and PHP Buildpack Cf-release before 242, as used in Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Elastic Runtime before 1.6.38 and 1.7.x before 1.7.19 and other products, place the .profile file in the htdocs directory, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an HTTP GET request for this file.

Affected products

• Cloudfoundry Php-Buildpack: through 4.3.17
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime: through 1.6.37; 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.7.4, 1.7.5 (+13)

References

• https://github.com/cloudfoundry/php-buildpack/commit/e2db3ccd4812e0c0aba20720fc51789d981aba67
• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-6639
• https://github.com/cloudfoundry/php-buildpack/commit/e2db3ccd4812e0c0aba20720fc51789d981aba67
• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-6639

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