PHP up to 5.1.2 unset cross site scripting

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in PHP up to 5.1.2 and classified as problematic. This affects the function unset. The manipulation results in cross site scripting. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2006-3016. The attack can be launched remotely. Moreover, an exploit is present. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in PHP up to 5.1.2 (Programming Language Software). It has been classified as critical. Affected is the function unset. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in session.c in PHP before 5.1.3 has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to "certain characters in session names," including special characters that are frequently associated with CRLF injection, SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and HTTP response splitting vulnerabilities. NOTE: while the nature of the vulnerability is unspecified, it is likely that this is related to a violation of an expectation by PHP applications that the session name is alphanumeric, as implied in the PHP manual for session_name().

The weakness was disclosed 05/04/2006 by Stefan Esser with PHP Group (Website). The advisory is available at php.net. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2006-3016 since 06/14/2006. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details and a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 22443 (RHEL 3 / 4 : php (RHSA-2006:0669)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 156244 (Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for PHP (ELSA-2006:0730,ELSA-2006:0669)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at php.net. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version. A possible mitigation has been published 5 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (22443), SecurityFocus (BID 17843†), OSVDB (25253†), Secunia (SA19927†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1016306†). The entries VDB-2200, VDB-2199, VDB-2201 and VDB-2423 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Cross site scripting
CWE: CWE-80 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Nessus ID: 22443
Nessus Name: RHEL 3 / 4 : php (RHSA-2006:0669)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Patch: php.net

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Sourcesinfo

Product: php.org

Advisory: php.net
Researcher: Stefan Esser
Organization: PHP Group
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-3016 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-3016
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-2202

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SecurityFocus: 17843 - PHP Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 19927 - PHP Multiple Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 25253 - PHP Session Name Unspecified Character Weakness
SecurityTracker: 1016306

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 05/05/2006 17:56
Updated: 04/24/2019 09:50
Changes: 05/05/2006 17:56 (89), 04/24/2019 09:50 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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