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CVE-2011-1072

The installer in PEAR before 1.9.2 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on the package.x

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.

LOW · CVSS 3.3 EPSS 0.00077
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php pear<= 1.9.1
php pearall versions

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3.3
LOW · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Published to NVD03 Mar 2011 · 01:00 AM

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