CVE-2008-3660: PHP

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PHP 4.4.x before 4.4.9, and 5.x through 5.2.6, when used as a FastCGI module, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a request with multiple dots preceding the extension, as demonstrated using foo..php.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: version 4.4.0 only; version 4.4.1 only; version 4.4.2 only; version 4.4.3 only; version 4.4.4 only; version 4.4.5 only; …

Published 2008-08-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.