Is CVE-2007-3007 being actively exploited?

CVE-2007-3007 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2007-3007?

CVE-2007-3007 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 5.0 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2007-3007

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.7%EU EUVD

PHP 5 before 5.2.3 does not enforce the open_basedir or safe_mode restriction in certain cases, which allows context-dependent attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files by checking if the readfile function returns a string. NOTE: this issue might also involve the realpath function.

Key facts

CVSS score: 5.0 (v2.0)
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-264
EPSS score: 2.7% (86th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2007-2999)
Published: June 4, 2007
NVD last modified: June 16, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-2999 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

php / php

References

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=41492(Vendor Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-07/msg00006.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://osvdb.org/36084(Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/25456(Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/26048(Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/26231(Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/27102(Vendor Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/27110(Vendor Advisory)
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.php.net/releases/5_2_3.php(Vendor Advisory)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24259(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0023/(Broken Link)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00397.html(Third Party Advisory)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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