CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-3016

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in session.c in PHP before 5.1.3 involves unknown impact and attack vectors related to certain characters in session names, including special characters associated with CRLF injection, SQL injection, XSS, and HTTP response splitting. PHP applications expect session names to be alphanumeric, as implied in the PHP manual for session_name().

Risk Assessment

Organizations using vulnerable PHP versions are exposed to various attacks, including cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection, which could lead to data theft or session hijacking.

Recommendation

Immediately update PHP to version 5.1.3 or later. Additionally, verify and filter session names in applications to ensure they contain only alphanumeric characters.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Unspecified vulnerability in session.c in PHP before 5.1.3 has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to "certain characters in session names," including special characters that are frequently associated with CRLF injection, SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and HTTP response splitting vulnerabilities. NOTE: while the nature of the vulnerability is unspecified, it is likely that this is related to a violation of an expectation by PHP applications that the session name is alphanumeric, as implied in the PHP manual for session_name().

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