CVE-2007-1396 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2007-1396 Interim 1 5 2023-12-09T02:15:25Z current 2021-05-30T12:38:18Z 2023-12-09T02:15:25Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2007-1396 The import_request_variables function in PHP 4.0.7 through 4.4.6, and 5.x before 5.2.2, when called without a prefix, does not prevent the (1) GET, (2) POST, (3) COOKIE, (4) FILES, (5) SERVER, (6) SESSION, and other superglobals from being overwritten, which allows remote attackers to spoof source IP address and Referer data, and have other unspecified impact. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a design limitation of PHP and that only the misuse of this feature, i.e. implementation bugs in applications, should be included in CVE. However, it has been fixed by the vendor. The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/security-announce@lists.opensuse.org/thread/OO4HCC6LX7HJOI657XUIGGNA7PUTK55A/#OO4HCC6LX7HJOI657XUIGGNA7PUTK55A E-Mail link for SUSE-SA:2007:044 https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings The import_request_variables function in PHP 4.0.7 through 4.4.6, and 5.x before 5.2.2, when called without a prefix, does not prevent the (1) GET, (2) POST, (3) COOKIE, (4) FILES, (5) SERVER, (6) SESSION, and other superglobals from being overwritten, which allows remote attackers to spoof source IP address and Referer data, and have other unspecified impact. NOTE: it could be argued that this is a design limitation of PHP and that only the misuse of this feature, i.e. implementation bugs in applications, should be included in CVE. However, it has been fixed by the vendor. CVE-2007-1396 moderate 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P