From: david at majorsecurity dot info Operating system: Unix PHP version: 5.3.0 PHP Bug Type: Filter related Bug description: preg_match() full path disclosure
Description: ------------ There is a full path disclosure vulnerability concerning the preg_match() php function which allow attackers to gather the real path of the server side script. The preg_match() PHP function takes strings as parameters and will raise warnings when values that are passed are arrays rather then strings. I would NOT recommend to just react by "security through obscurity" and turn off the error messages, error reporting etc. This is not a solution because there are a lot of users that are having a shared hosting server where they aren't able to manipulate the "php.ini" configuration file - even ini_set() is forbidden on some shared hoster servers. So they still would have the full path disclosure there. As general workaround I would recommend to meticulously go through the code forcing PHP to cast the data to the desired type, in this case the (string) casts to eliminate the Notice or Warning messages. Reproduce code: --------------- Proof of concept: http://localhost/cms/modules/system/admin.php?fct=users&op[]= Expected result: ---------------- Warning: preg_match() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given in /htdocs/cms/include/common.php on line 105 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49693&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49693&r=mysqlcfg
