CVE-2011-1072
LOW · CVSS 3.3EPSS 0.5%EU EUVD
The installer in PEAR before 1.9.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the package.xml file, related to the (1) download_dir, (2) cache_dir, (3) tmp_dir, and (4) pear-build-download directories, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-2519.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-59
- EPSS score
- 0.5% (41th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-1087)
- Published
- March 3, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-1087 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
- php / pear
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546164
- http://news.php.net/php.pear.cvs/61264(Patch)
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/12
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/3
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/5
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/4
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/5
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/7
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/8
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/9
- http://pear.php.net/advisory-20110228.txt(Vendor Advisory)
- http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=18056(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43533(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1072
- http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=308687(Patch)
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:187
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1741.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46605
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65721
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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