CVE-2015-4642 (GCVE-0-2015-4642)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-05-16 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:18
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The escapeshellarg function in ext/standard/exec.c in PHP before 5.4.42, 5.5.x before 5.5.26, and 5.6.x before 5.6.10 on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via a crafted string to an application that accepts command-line arguments for a call to the PHP system function.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
7 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032709 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75290 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/18/6 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69646 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-10 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
Date Public
2015-06-11 00:00
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"type": "Primary"
}
]
}
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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