CVE-2010-4335
The _validatePost function in libs/controller/components/security.php in CakePHP 1.3.x through 1.3.5 and 1.2.8 allows remote attackers to modify the internal Cake cache and execute arbitrary code via a crafted data[_Token][fields] value that is processed by the unserialize function, as demonstrated by modifying the file_map cache to execute arbitrary local files.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 55.2% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2022-3864)
- Published
- January 14, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2022-3864 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- cakefoundation / cakephp
- cakephp / cakephp
- cakephp / cakephp
- cakephp / cakephp
- cakephp / cakephp
- cakephp / cakephp
- cakephp / cakephp
- cakephp / cakephp
- cakephp / cakephp
- cakephp / cakephp
- cakephp / cakephp
- cakephp / cakephp
- cakephp / cakephp
- cakephp / cakephp
References
- http://malloc.im/CakePHP-unserialize.txt(Exploit)
- http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/view/95847/burnedcake.py.txt(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42211(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8026
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16011
- http://www.osvdb.org/69352
- https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/commit/e431e86aa4301ced4273dc7919b59362cbb353cb(Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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