Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-1072

Title: Php Pear

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-1072.

CWE Category CWE-59

Published Date Mar 03, 2011

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.08%

Vulnerability Summary

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.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.

Impacted Vendors

php 1

pear 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546164 http://news.php.net/php.pear.cvs/61264 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/12 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/5 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/4 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/5 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/7 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/8 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/9 http://pear.php.net/advisory-20110228.txt http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=18056 http://secunia.com/advisories/43533 http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1072 http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=308687 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:187 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1741.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46605 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65721 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=546164 http://news.php.net/php.pear.cvs/61264 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/12 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/3 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/28/5 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/4 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/5 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/7 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/8 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/01/9 http://pear.php.net/advisory-20110228.txt http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=18056 http://secunia.com/advisories/43533 http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1072 http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=308687 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:187 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1741.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46605 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65721

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-1072 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 03, 2011 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:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.