CVE-2004-0542 Information

Description

PHP before 4.3.7 on Win32 platforms does not properly filter all shell metacharacters which allows local or remote attackers to execute arbitrary code overwrite files and access internal environment variables via (1) the \ |\ or \ characters to the escapeshellcmd function or (2) the \ character to the escapeshellarg function.

Reference

http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=108 http://www.php.net/release_4_3_7.php https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16331