CVE-2012-1171

medium
Published 2014-02-15 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

The libxml RSHUTDOWN function in PHP 5.x allows remote attackers to bypass the open_basedir protection mechanism and read arbitrary files via vectors involving a stream_close method call during use of a custom stream wrapper.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp5.0.0
php phpphp5.0.1
php phpphp5.0.2
php phpphp5.0.3
php phpphp5.0.4
php phpphp5.0.5
php phpphp5.1.0
php phpphp5.1.1
php phpphp5.1.2
php phpphp5.1.3
php phpphp5.1.4
php phpphp5.1.5
php phpphp5.1.6
php phpphp5.2.0
php phpphp5.2.1
php phpphp5.2.2
php phpphp5.2.3
php phpphp5.2.4
php phpphp5.2.5
php phpphp5.2.6
php phpphp5.2.7
php phpphp5.2.8
php phpphp5.2.9
php phpphp5.2.10
php phpphp5.2.11
php phpphp5.2.12
php phpphp5.2.13
php phpphp5.2.14
php phpphp5.2.15
php phpphp5.2.16
php phpphp5.2.17
php phpphp5.3.0
php phpphp5.3.1
php phpphp5.3.2
php phpphp5.3.3
php phpphp5.3.4
php phpphp5.3.5
php phpphp5.3.6
php phpphp5.3.7
php phpphp5.3.8
php phpphp5.3.9
php phpphp5.3.10
php phpphp5.3.11
php phpphp5.3.12
php phpphp5.3.13
php phpphp5.3.14
php phpphp5.3.15
php phpphp5.3.16
php phpphp5.3.17
php phpphp5.3.18
php phpphp5.3.19
php phpphp5.3.20
php phpphp5.3.21
php phpphp5.3.22
php phpphp5.3.23
php phpphp5.3.24
php phpphp5.3.25
php phpphp5.3.26
php phpphp5.3.27
php phpphp5.4.0
php phpphp5.4.1
php phpphp5.4.2
php phpphp5.4.3
php phpphp5.4.4
php phpphp5.4.5
php phpphp5.4.6
php phpphp5.4.7
php phpphp5.4.8
php phpphp5.4.9
php phpphp5.4.10
php phpphp5.4.11
php phpphp5.4.12
php phpphp5.4.13
php phpphp5.4.14
php phpphp5.4.15
php phpphp5.4.16
php phpphp5.4.17
php phpphp5.4.18
php phpphp5.4.19
php phpphp5.4.20
php phpphp5.4.21
php phpphp5.4.22
php phpphp5.4.23
php phpphp5.5.0
php phpphp5.5.1
php phpphp5.5.2
php phpphp5.5.3
php phpphp5.5.4
php phpphp5.5.5
php phpphp5.5.6

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.