CVE-2006-7243

CVE-2006-7243 · MEDIUM Severity

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

PHP before 5.3.4 accepts the \0 character in a pathname, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by placing a safe file extension after this character, as demonstrated by .php\0.jpg at the end of the argument to the file_exists function.

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