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CVE-2012-2336

medium
Published 2012-05-11 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.0

Description

sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c in PHP before 5.3.13 and 5.4.x before 5.4.3, when configured as a CGI script (aka php-cgi), does not properly handle query strings that lack an = (equals sign) character, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by placing command-line options in the query string, related to lack of skipping a certain php_getopt for the 'T' case. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-1823.

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-29290 remote php verified
kingcope · 2013-10-29

Apache + PHP < 5.3.12 / < 5.4.2 - cgi-bin Remote Code Execution

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EDB-29316 remote php
noptrix · 2013-10-31

Apache + PHP < 5.3.12 / < 5.4.2 - Remote Code Execution + Scanner

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-18834 remote php verified
Metasploit · 2012-05-04

PHP 5.3.12/5.4.2 - CGI Argument Injection (Metasploit)

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EDB-18836 remote php verified
rayh4c · 2012-05-05

PHP < 5.3.12 / < 5.4.2 - CGI Argument Injection

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
php phpphp{"endIncluding":"5.3.12"}
php phpphp1.0
php phpphp2.0
php phpphp2.0b10
php phpphp3.0
php phpphp3.0.1
php phpphp3.0.2
php phpphp3.0.3
php phpphp3.0.4
php phpphp3.0.5
php phpphp3.0.6
php phpphp3.0.7
php phpphp3.0.8
php phpphp3.0.9
php phpphp3.0.10
php phpphp3.0.11
php phpphp3.0.12
php phpphp3.0.13
php phpphp3.0.14
php phpphp3.0.15
php phpphp3.0.16
php phpphp3.0.17
php phpphp3.0.18
php phpphp4.0
php phpphp4.0.0
php phpphp4.0.1
php phpphp4.0.2
php phpphp4.0.3
php phpphp4.0.4
php phpphp4.0.5
php phpphp4.0.6
php phpphp4.0.7
php phpphp4.1.0
php phpphp4.1.1
php phpphp4.1.2
php phpphp4.2.0
php phpphp4.2.1
php phpphp4.2.2
php phpphp4.2.3
php phpphp4.3.0
php phpphp4.3.1
php phpphp4.3.2
php phpphp4.3.3
php phpphp4.3.4
php phpphp4.3.5
php phpphp4.3.6
php phpphp4.3.7
php phpphp4.3.8
php phpphp4.3.9
php phpphp4.3.10
php phpphp4.3.11
php phpphp4.4.0
php phpphp4.4.1
php phpphp4.4.2
php phpphp4.4.3
php phpphp4.4.4
php phpphp4.4.5
php phpphp4.4.6
php phpphp4.4.7
php phpphp4.4.8
php phpphp4.4.9
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 phpphp5.4.0
php phpphp5.4.1
php phpphp5.4.2

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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