CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.0. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2006-7243
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
5.36%
Original NVD Description
PHP before 5.3.4 accepts the \0 character in a pathname, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass intended access restrictions by placing a safe file extension after this character, as demonstrated by .php\0.jpg at the end of the argument to the file_exists function.