CVE-2012-2335
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 33.7%EU EUVD
php-wrapper.fcgi does not properly handle command-line arguments, which allows remote attackers to bypass a protection mechanism in PHP 5.3.12 and 5.4.2 and execute arbitrary code by leveraging improper interaction between the PHP sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c component and a query string beginning with a +- sequence.
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-264
- EPSS score
- 33.7% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-2328)
- Published
- May 11, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-2328 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- php / php
- php / php
References
- http://eindbazen.net/2012/05/php-cgi-advisory-cve-2012-1823/
- http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=sapi/cgi/cgi_main.c%3Bh=a7ac26f0#l1569
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00003.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49014
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/520827(US Government Resource)
- http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-05-06-1
- https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61910(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/75652
- https://h20564.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c03839862
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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