In PHP before 5.6.28 and 7.x before 7.0.13, incorrect handling of various URI components in the URL parser could be used by attackers to bypass hostname-specific URL checks, as demonstrated by evil.example.com:80#@good.example.com/ and evil.example.com:80?@good.example.com/ inputs to the parse_url function (implemented in the php_url_parse_ex function in ext/standard/url.c).
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2016-10397 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS3 Base Score | 5.4 |
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CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
Attack Vector | Network |
Attack Complexity | Low |
Privileges Required | None |
User Interaction | Required |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | Low |
Integrity Impact | Low |
Availability Impact | None |
Platform | Package | State |
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Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-php70-php | Will not fix |
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-php56-php | Will not fix |
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 | php | Will not fix |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | php | Will not fix |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | php | Will not fix |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | php53 | Will not fix |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | php | Will not fix |