CVE-2011-1072 in PEAR

Summary

The installer in PEAR before 1.9.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the package.xml file, related to the (1) download_dir, (2) cache_dir, (3) tmp_dir, and (4) pear-build-download directories, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-2519.

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• Reservation: 02/24/2011
• Disclosure: 03/02/2011
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-56693 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-59 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.1
• EPSS: 0.00077
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1072
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1072
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2011-1072/