PHP up to 5.3.2 internal information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in PHP up to 5.3.2 (Programming Language Software). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects the function internal. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

The addcslashes function in PHP 5.2 through 5.2.13 and 5.3 through 5.3.2 allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information (memory contents) by causing a userspace interruption of an internal function, related to the call time pass by reference feature.

The weakness was disclosed 05/07/2010 (Website). The advisory is shared at php-security.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2010-1864 since 05/07/2010. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/13/2021). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 56459 (GLSA-201110-06 : PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165197 (SUSE Security Update for Multiple Packages (SUSE-SR:2010:018)).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (56459). The entries 53487, 53395, 53394 and 53391 are pretty similar.

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Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 56459
Nessus Name: GLSA-201110-06 : PHP: Multiple vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 70769
OpenVAS Name: Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 201110-06 (php)
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Product: php.org

Advisory: php-security.org
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2010-1864 (🔍)
Vulnerability Center: 25874 - PHP 5.2 - 5.2.13 and 5.3 - 5.3.2 Addcslashes Function Remote Sensitive Information Disclosure, Medium

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Created: 03/19/2015 12:22
Updated: 09/13/2021 08:42
Changes: 03/19/2015 12:22 (56), 02/25/2017 10:24 (7), 09/13/2021 08:42 (3)
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