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HistorySep 27, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2014-5459

2014-09-2700:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
9

3.6 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

25.9%

The PEAR_REST class in REST.php in PEAR in PHP through 5.6.0 allows local
users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1)
rest.cachefile or (2) rest.cacheid file in /tmp/pear/cache/, related to the
retrieveCacheFirst and useLocalCache functions.

Bugs

Notes

Author Note
jdstrand Upstream states this is a known issue
sbeattie upstream claims fixed in 1.9.2, but still uses /tmp/pear/ according to debian bug report
mdeslaur 1.9.2+ only a DoS
rodrigo-zaiden No complete fix was provided as of 2022-03-08.

3.6 Low

CVSS2

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

25.9%