CVE-2014-5459

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-08-25
CWE:
CWE-377
Bugzilla:
1133753: CVE-2014-5459 php-pear: insecure temporary file use for cache data

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2014-5459 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of php-pear as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7 as well as Red Hat Software Collections as they do not use a world-writable directory for storing PEAR cache data.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 3.6
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux php55-php-pear Not affected
Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux php54-php-pear Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 php-pear Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 php-pear Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php-pear Not affected

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