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CVE-2011-1072 (GCVE-0-2011-1072)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-03-03 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:14
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2011-02-27 00:00
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      "aggregate_severity": "Low",
      "current_release_date": "2026-01-28T23:05:06+00:00",
      "cve": "CVE-2011-1072",
      "id": "CVE-2011-1072",
      "initial_release_date": "2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:fixed": "4",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "1",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "php-pear: symlink vulnerability in PEAR installer",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2011/cve-2011-1072.json",
      "version": "3"
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      "aggregate_severity": "low",
      "current_release_date": "2025-03-16T14:23:17Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2011-1072",
      "id": "CVE-2011-1072",
      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:54:06Z",
      "product_status:recommended": "45",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2011-1072",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2011-1072.json",
      "version": "4"
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  }
}



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