CVE-2008-5624: PHP

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

PHP 5 before 5.2.7 does not properly initialize the page_uid and page_gid global variables for use by the SAPI php_getuid function, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions via variable settings that are intended to be restricted to root, as demonstrated by a setting of /etc for the error_log variable.

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 2008-12-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.