The compress.bzip2:// URL wrapper provided by the bz2 extension in PHP before 4.4.7, and 5.x before 5.2.2, does not implement safemode or open_basedir checks, which allows remote attackers to read bzip2 archives located outside of the intended directories
Published Mar 14, 2007
7.8
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 2.20%
Description
The compress.bzip2:// URL wrapper provided by the bz2 extension in PHP before 4.4.7, and 5.x before 5.2.2, does not implement safemode or open_basedir checks, which allows remote attackers to read bzip2 archives located outside of the intended directories.
Affected products
No data.
Configuration 1
- 5.0.0
- 5.0.1
- 5.0.2
- 5.0.3
- 5.0.4
- 5.0.5
- 5.1.0
- 5.1.1
- 5.1.2
- 5.1.3
- 5.1.4
- 5.1.5
- 5.1.6
- 5.2.0
- 5.2.1
Configuration 2
- ≤ 4.4.6
- 1.0
- 2.0
- 2.0b10
- 3.0
- 3.0.1
- 3.0.2
- 3.0.3
- 3.0.4
- 3.0.5
- 3.0.6
- 3.0.7
- 3.0.8
- 3.0.9
- 3.0.10
- 3.0.11
- 3.0.12
- 3.0.13
- 3.0.14
- 3.0.15
- 3.0.16
- 3.0.17
- 3.0.18
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0
- 4.0.0
- 4.0.1
- 4.0.2
- 4.0.3
- 4.0.4
- 4.0.5
- 4.0.6
- 4.0.7
- 4.1.0
- 4.1.1
- 4.1.2
- 4.2.0
- 4.2.1
- 4.2.2
- 4.2.3
- 4.3.0
- 4.3.1
- 4.3.2
- 4.3.3
- 4.3.4
- 4.3.5
- 4.3.6
- 4.3.7
- 4.3.8
- 4.3.9
- 4.3.10
- 4.3.11
- 4.4.0
- 4.4.1
- 4.4.2
- 4.4.3
- 4.4.4
- 4.4.5
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
Red Hat statement
The PHP interpreter does not offer a reliable "sandboxed" security layer (as found in, say, a JVM) in which untrusted scripts can be run; any script run by the PHP interpreter must be trusted with the privileges of the interpreter itself. We therefore do not classify this issue as security-sensitive since no trust boundary is crossed.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (17 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 2.20% (0.02202) | 81.89th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 2.20% (0.02202) | 80.14th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.84% (0.00836) | 73.01th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 1.24% (0.01237) | 86.05th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 9, 2024 | 0.88% (0.00875) | 82.35th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 23, 2024 | 1.52% (0.01522) | 86.65th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jan 16, 2024 | 1.08% (0.01077) | 82.64th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 9, 2023 | 1.04% (0.01043) | 82.23th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 1, 2023 | 0.81% (0.00814) | 79.91th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Aug 16, 2023 | 0.77% (0.00773) | 79.04th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 9, 2023 | 0.72% (0.00720) | 78.00th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 3, 2023 | 0.69% (0.00685) | 77.18th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 20, 2023 | 0.67% (0.00672) | 76.69th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.62% (0.00620) | 75.56th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 80.77th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 78.91th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 57.73th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (14)
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25056 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26235 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://us2.php.net/releases/4_4_7.php x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://us2.php.net/releases/5_2_2.php x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_32_php.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.php-security.org/MOPB/MOPB-21-2007.html x_refsource_MISC
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22954 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2732 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-1461 Vendor Advisory
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-1461
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-1461
Change history (0)
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