CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-3415

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

phpBB 2.0.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms that deregister global variables by setting both a GET/POST/COOKIE (GPC) variable and a GLOBALS[] variable with the same name, which causes phpBB to unset the GLOBALS[] variable but not the GPC variable.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to manipulate global variables, potentially leading to unauthorized access, code execution, or other attacks on the application.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately upgrade phpBB to version 2.0.18 or later, which includes a fix for this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

phpBB 2.0.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass protection mechanisms that deregister global variables by setting both a GET/POST/COOKIE (GPC) variable and a GLOBALS[] variable with the same name, which causes phpBB to unset the GLOBALS[] variable but not the GPC variable.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS