CVE-2016-6639: Cloudfoundry PHP-Buildpack

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Cloud Foundry PHP Buildpack (aka php-buildpack) before 4.3.18 and PHP Buildpack Cf-release before 242, as used in Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Elastic Runtime before 1.6.38 and 1.7.x before 1.7.19 and other products, place the .profile file in the htdocs directory, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an HTTP GET request for this file.

Affected products

• Cloudfoundry PHP-Buildpack: up to and including 4.3.17
• Pivotal Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime: up to and including 1.6.37; version 1.7.0 only; version 1.7.1 only; version 1.7.2 only; version 1.7.3 only; version 1.7.4 only; …

Published 2016-09-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.