CVE-2011-1072
N/A
Published: March 3, 2011 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:28 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPear
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (19)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/12Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/3Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/5Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/4Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/5Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/7Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-59
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