CVE-2009-1272: PHP

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The php_zip_make_relative_path function in php_zip.c in PHP 5.2.x before 5.2.9 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a ZIP file that contains filenames with relative paths, which is not properly handled during extraction.

Affected products

• PHP PHP: version 5.2.0 only; version 5.2.1 only; version 5.2.2 only; version 5.2.3 only; version 5.2.4 only; version 5.2.5 only; …

Published 2009-04-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.