4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2008-1614

Published: 02/04/2008 Updated: 08/08/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.1
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

suPHP prior to 0.6.3 allows local users to gain privileges via (1) a race condition that involves multiple symlink changes to point a file owned by a different user, or (2) a symlink to the directory of a different user, which is used to determine privileges.

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sebastian marsching suphp

Vendor Advisories

It was discovered that suphp, an Apache module to run PHP scripts with owner permissions handles symlinks insecurely, which may lead to privilege escalation by local users For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 062-1+etch0 For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon We recommend that ...