CVE-2011-1072: php pear
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2011-1072 is a low (CVSS 3.3) vulnerability in php pear. EPSS estimates a 0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Not severe (CVSS 3.3, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1Timeline
- 03-03-2011PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
0.48%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
41%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.48% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (pear.php.net)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: local access, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Php1 product
- pear≤ 1.9.1 | 0.2.2 | 0.9 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.90 | 1.0 | 1.0.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2.1 | 1.3 | 1.3.1 | 1.3.3 | 1.3.3.1 | 1.3.4 | 1.3.5 | 1.3.6 | 1.4.0 | 1.4.0:rc1 | 1.4.0:rc2 | 1.4.1 | 1.4.2 | 1.5.0 | 1.5.1 | 1.6.1
Redhat1 product
- php-pear< 1:1.9.4-4.el6
2 vendors · 2 products
References
28 links
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546164X Refsource CONFIRM- security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1072X Refsource CONFIRM
