CVE-2007-1461: PHP

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• PHP PHP: version 5.0.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.0.3 only; version 5.0.4 only; version 5.0.5 only; …

Published 2007-03-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.