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CVE-2014-5459: opensuse evergreen Link Following

CVSS: 3.6v2.0LowModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2014-5459
Published 27-09-2014Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2014-5459 is a low (CVSS 3.6) Link Following vulnerability in opensuse evergreen. EPSS estimates a 0.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
25/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
3.6/10
010
Low · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.64%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1reference

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 4
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10290-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10344-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:11169-1SUSE-SU-2016:1638-1

Timeline

  1. 27-09-2014
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The PEAR_REST class in REST.php in PEAR in PHP through 5.6.0 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) rest.cachefile or (2) rest.cacheid file in /tmp/pear/cache/, related to the retrieveCacheFirst and useLocalCache functions.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.64%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

50%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.64% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.64%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • referenceUnverified

    Exploit Reference (bugs.debian.org)

    Maturity: unknown

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Opensuse2 products
Ubuntu2 products
  • php-pearAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • php5All versions (No fix recorded)
Oracle1 product
Php1 product

4 vendors · 6 products

References

7 links