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PHP Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability - CVE-2008-2665 - Vulnerability Database
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PHP Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability - CVE-2008-2665

Medium
Reference: CVE-2008-2665
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2665
Title: PHP Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path Traversal) Vulnerability
Overview:

Directory traversal vulnerability in the posix_access function in PHP 5.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions via a .. (dot dot) in an http URL which results in the URL being canonicalized to a local filename after the safe_mode check has successfully run.