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high 7.5

CVE-2008-5658 json

Directory traversal vulnerability in the ZipArchive::extractTo function in PHP 5.2.6 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to writ…

published 2008-12-17 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-5629

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.0%
EPSS 4.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in the ZipArchive::extractTo function in PHP 5.2.6 and earlier allows context-dependent attackers to write arbitrary files via a ZIP file with a file whose name contains .. (dot dot) sequences.

Patch / fix

  • php RHEL 2 APPLICATION_STACK 5.2.6-4.el5s2
  • php-gd RHEL 2 APPLICATION_STACK 5.2.6-4.el5s2
  • php-cli RHEL 2 APPLICATION_STACK 5.2.6-4.el5s2
  • php-dba RHEL 2 APPLICATION_STACK 5.2.6-4.el5s2
  • php-pdo RHEL 2 APPLICATION_STACK 5.2.6-4.el5s2
  • php-xml RHEL 2 APPLICATION_STACK 5.2.6-4.el5s2
  • php-imap RHEL 2 APPLICATION_STACK 5.2.6-4.el5s2
  • php-ldap RHEL 2 APPLICATION_STACK 5.2.6-4.el5s2

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:0350

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-5658 updated

php: ZipArchive:: extractTo() Directory Traversal Vulnerability

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.03% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • sektioneins.de http://www.sektioneins.de/advisories/SE-2008-06.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.