Description
The session_start function in ext/session in PHP 4.x up to 4.4.7 and 5.x up to 5.2.3 allows remote attackers to insert arbitrary attributes into the session cookie via special characters in a cookie that is obtained from (1) PATH_INFO, (2) the session_id function, and (3) the session_start function, which are not encoded or filtered when the new session cookie is generated, a related issue to CVE-2006-0207.
Published: 2007-07-16
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 9.2% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1444-1 New php5 packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1444-2 New php5 packages fix regression
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1578-1 New php4 packages fix several vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-549-1 PHP vulnerabilities
References
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://osvdb.org/36855 cve-icon cve-icon
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0889.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/26871 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/26895 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/26930 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/26967 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27351 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27377 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27545 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/27864 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/28249 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/30288 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-449.htm cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1444 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1578 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:187 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_15_sr.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.php-security.org/MOPB/PMOPB-46-2007.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0888.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0890.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0891.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24268 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-549-2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references cve-icon cve-icon
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1693 cve-icon cve-icon
https://launchpad.net/bugs/173043 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-3799 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9792 cve-icon cve-icon
https://usn.ubuntu.com/549-1/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-3799 cve-icon
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00354.html cve-icon cve-icon
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Php Php
Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel Application Stack
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T14:28:52.465Z

Reserved: 2007-07-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-3799

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-07-16T22:30:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-3799

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2007-06-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-3799 - Bugzilla

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