CVE-2010-4335

Summary

CVECVE-2010-4335
StatePUBLISHED
Assignerredhat
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2011-01-14 23:00:46 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe _validatePost function in libs/controller/components/security.php in CakePHP 1.3.x through 1.3.5 and 1.2.8 allows remote attackers to modify the internal Cake cache and execute arbitrary code via a crafted data[_Token][fields] value that is processed by the unserialize function, as demonstrated by modifying the file_map cache to execute arbitrary local files.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-20 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cakefoundation Cakephp 1.3.0 All All All
Application Cakephp Cakephp 1.2.8 All All All
Application Cakephp Cakephp 1.3 dev All All
Application Cakephp Cakephp 1.3.0 alpha All All
Application Cakephp Cakephp 1.3.0 beta All All
Application Cakephp Cakephp 1.3.0 rc1 All All
Application Cakephp Cakephp 1.3.0 rc2 All All
Application Cakephp Cakephp 1.3.0 rc3 All All
Application Cakephp Cakephp 1.3.0 rc4 All All
Application Cakephp Cakephp 1.3.1 All All All
Application Cakephp Cakephp 1.3.2 All All All
Application Cakephp Cakephp 1.3.3 All All All
Application Cakephp Cakephp 1.3.4 All All All
Application Cakephp Cakephp 1.3.5 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CakePHP <= 1.3.5 / 1.2.8 unserialize() Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.exploit-db.com
CakePHP <= 1.3.5 / 1.2.8 unserialize() Vulnerability - SecurityReason.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
CakePHP 1.3.5 / 1.2.8 Cache Corruption ≈ Packet Storm af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 packetstormsecurity.org Exploit
CakePHP "unserialize()" PHP Code Execution Vulnerability - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
malloc.im/CakePHP-unserialize.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 malloc.im Exploit
www.osvdb.org/69352 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
Fixing issue found by Felix Wilhelm(flxm) where users could send pote… · cakephp/cakephp@e431e86 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Patch
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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