Local File Overwrite Vulnerability in PEAR Installer

CVE-2011-1144 · LOW Severity

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

The installer in PEAR 1.9.2 and earlier 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. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2011-1072.

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