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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2015-4642

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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2015-4642

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/16/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/03/2016
Modified
07/21/2021

Description

The escapeshellarg function in ext/standard/exec.c in PHP before 5.4.42, 5.5.x before 5.5.26, and 5.6.x before 5.6.10 on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via a crafted string to an application that accepts command-line arguments for a call to the PHP system function.

Solution(s)

  • php-upgrade-5_4_42
  • php-upgrade-5_5_26
  • php-upgrade-5_6_10

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