VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2006-7243

medium
Published 2011-01-18 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

PHP before 5.3.4 accepts the \0 character in a pathname, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by placing a safe file extension after this character, as demonstrated by .php\0.jpg at the end of the argument to the file_exists function.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp{"endIncluding":"5.3.3"}
php phpphp1.0
php phpphp2.0
php phpphp2.0b10
php phpphp3.0
php phpphp3.0.1
php phpphp3.0.2
php phpphp3.0.3
php phpphp3.0.4
php phpphp3.0.5
php phpphp3.0.6
php phpphp3.0.7
php phpphp3.0.8
php phpphp3.0.9
php phpphp3.0.10
php phpphp3.0.11
php phpphp3.0.12
php phpphp3.0.13
php phpphp3.0.14
php phpphp3.0.15
php phpphp3.0.16
php phpphp3.0.17
php phpphp3.0.18
php phpphp4.0
php phpphp4.0.0
php phpphp4.0.1
php phpphp4.0.2
php phpphp4.0.3
php phpphp4.0.4
php phpphp4.0.5
php phpphp4.0.6
php phpphp4.0.7
php phpphp4.1.0
php phpphp4.1.1
php phpphp4.1.2
php phpphp4.2.0
php phpphp4.2.1
php phpphp4.2.2
php phpphp4.2.3
php phpphp4.3.0
php phpphp4.3.1
php phpphp4.3.2
php phpphp4.3.3
php phpphp4.3.4
php phpphp4.3.5
php phpphp4.3.6
php phpphp4.3.7
php phpphp4.3.8
php phpphp4.3.9
php phpphp4.3.10
php phpphp4.3.11
php phpphp4.4.0
php phpphp4.4.1
php phpphp4.4.2
php phpphp4.4.3
php phpphp4.4.4
php phpphp4.4.5
php phpphp4.4.6
php phpphp4.4.7
php phpphp4.4.8
php phpphp4.4.9
php phpphp5.0.0
php phpphp5.0.1
php phpphp5.0.2
php phpphp5.0.3
php phpphp5.0.4
php phpphp5.0.5
php phpphp5.1.0
php phpphp5.1.1
php phpphp5.1.2
php phpphp5.1.3
php phpphp5.1.4
php phpphp5.1.5
php phpphp5.1.6
php phpphp5.2.0
php phpphp5.2.1
php phpphp5.2.2
php phpphp5.2.3
php phpphp5.2.4
php phpphp5.2.5
php phpphp5.2.6
php phpphp5.2.7
php phpphp5.2.8
php phpphp5.2.9
php phpphp5.2.10
php phpphp5.2.11
php phpphp5.2.12
php phpphp5.2.13
php phpphp5.2.14
php phpphp5.2.15
php phpphp5.2.16
php phpphp5.2.17
php phpphp5.3.0
php phpphp5.3.1
php phpphp5.3.2

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.