CVE-2008-5557

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 5
Modified
Published: 23 Dec 2008, 18:13
Last modified:07 Aug 2024, 10:56

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
critical
90/100
CVSS Score
10 HIGH
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
29.7% HIGH
30% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
2 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

23 Dec 2008, 18:13
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
07 Aug 2024, 10:56
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in ext/mbstring/libmbfl/filters/mbfilter_htmlent.c in the mbstring extension in PHP 4.3.0 through 5.2.6 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string containing an HTML entity, which is not properly handled during Unicode conversion, related to the (1) mb_convert_encoding, (2) mb_check_encoding, (3) mb_convert_variables, and (4) mb_parse_str functions.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•HIGH•Score: 10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 29.70%• Percentile: 97%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

    The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

  • Unknown•PHP

    4.3.0 | 4.3.1 | 4.3.2 | 4.3.3 | 4.3.4 | 4.3.5 | 4.3.6 | 4.3.7 | 4.3.8 | 4.3.9 | 4.3.10 | 4.3.11 | 4.4.0 | 4.4.1 | 4.4.2 | 4.4.3 | 4.4.4 | 4.4.5 | 4.4.6 | 4.4.7 | 4.4.8 | 4.4.9 | 5.0.0 | 5.0.0:beta1 | 5.0.0:beta2 | 5.0.0:beta3 | 5.0.0:beta4 | 5.0.0:rc1 | 5.0.0:rc2 | 5.0.0:rc3 | 5.0.1 | 5.0.2 | 5.0.3 | 5.0.4 | 5.0.5 | 5.1.0 | 5.1.1 | 5.1.2 | 5.1.3 | 5.1.4 | 5.1.5 | 5.1.6 | 5.2.0 | 5.2.1 | 5.2.2 | 5.2.3 | 5.2.4 | 5.2.5 | 5.2.6

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