CVE-2015-6833

7.5 highEPSS 4.8%

Directory traversal vulnerability in the PharData class in PHP before 5.4.44, 5.5.x before 5.5.28, and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in a ZIP archive entry that is mishandled during an extractTo call.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 92% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-22
Published: 2016-01-19
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

php:php

References

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3344
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/19/3
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70019
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-10

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