Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-3416

Title: phpBB register_globals session bypass

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-3416.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Nov 01, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.31%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-3416: phpBB 2.0.17 and earlier, when register_globals is enabled and the session_start function has not been called to handle a session, allows remote attackers to bypass security checks by setting the $_SESSION and $HTTP_SESSION_VARS variables to strings instead of arrays, which causes an array_merge function call to fail.

Impacted Vendors

phpbb 1

phpbb_group 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113081113317600&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/17366 http://secunia.com/advisories/18098 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/130 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015121 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-925 http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_172005.75.html http://www.osvdb.org/20413 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15243 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113081113317600&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/17366 http://secunia.com/advisories/18098 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/130 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015121 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-925 http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_172005.75.html http://www.osvdb.org/20413 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15243

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-3416 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 01, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.