CVE-2010-1130: PHP

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 9.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

session.c in the session extension in PHP before 5.2.13, and 5.3.1, does not properly interpret ; (semicolon) characters in the argument to the session_save_path function, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass open_basedir and safe_mode restrictions via an argument that contains multiple ; characters in conjunction with a .. (dot dot).

Affected products

• PHP PHP: up to and including 5.2.12; 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; …

Published 2010-03-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.