CVE-2015-4642
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
The escapeshellarg function in ext/standard/exec.c in PHP before 5.4.42, 5.5.x before 5.5.26, and 5.6.x before 5.6.10 on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via a crafted string to an application that accepts command-line arguments for a call to the PHP system function.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
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
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| php | php | {"endIncluding":"5.4.41"} | |
| php | php | 5.5.0 | |
| php | php | 5.5.1 | |
| php | php | 5.5.2 | |
| php | php | 5.5.3 | |
| php | php | 5.5.4 | |
| php | php | 5.5.5 | |
| php | php | 5.5.6 | |
| php | php | 5.5.7 | |
| php | php | 5.5.8 | |
| php | php | 5.5.9 | |
| php | php | 5.5.10 | |
| php | php | 5.5.11 | |
| php | php | 5.5.12 | |
| php | php | 5.5.13 | |
| php | php | 5.5.14 | |
| php | php | 5.5.15 | |
| php | php | 5.5.16 | |
| php | php | 5.5.17 | |
| php | php | 5.5.18 | |
| php | php | 5.5.19 | |
| php | php | 5.5.20 | |
| php | php | 5.5.21 | |
| php | php | 5.5.22 | |
| php | php | 5.5.23 | |
| php | php | 5.5.24 | |
| php | php | 5.5.25 | |
| php | php | 5.6.0 | |
| php | php | 5.6.1 | |
| php | php | 5.6.2 | |
| php | php | 5.6.3 | |
| php | php | 5.6.4 | |
| php | php | 5.6.5 | |
| php | php | 5.6.6 | |
| php | php | 5.6.7 | |
| php | php | 5.6.8 | |
| php | php | 5.6.9 | |
References
- http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d2ac264ffea5ca2e85640b6736e0c7cd4ee9a4a9
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/18/6
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75290
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032709
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69646
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-10
- http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d2ac264ffea5ca2e85640b6736e0c7cd4ee9a4a9
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/18/6
- http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75290
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032709
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69646
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-10
CWEs
CWE-78
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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