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Joomla!: [20180601] - Core - Local File Inclusion with PHP 5.3 (CVE-2018-12712)

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Joomla!: [20180601] - Core - Local File Inclusion with PHP 5.3 (CVE-2018-12712)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/26/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/27/2018
Modified
08/21/2018

Description

An issue was discovered in Joomla! 2.5.0 through 3.8.8 before 3.8.9. The autoload code checks classnames to be valid, using the "class_exists" function in PHP. In PHP 5.3, this function validates invalid names as valid, which can result in a Local File Inclusion.

Solution(s)

  • joomla-upgrade-3_8_9

References

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