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CVE-2019-3556

HIGH · CVSS 8.1 EPSS 1.73% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2021-10-26 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2019-3556
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.1
EPSS
1.73%

Original NVD Description

HHVM supports the use of an "admin" server which accepts administrative requests over HTTP. One of those request handlers, dump-pcre-cache, can be used to output cached regular expressions from the current execution context into a file. The handler takes a parameter which specifies where on the filesystem to write this data. The parameter is not validated, allowing a malicious user to overwrite arbitrary files where the user running HHVM has write access. This issue affects HHVM versions prior to 4.56.2, all versions between 4.57.0 and 4.78.0, as well as 4.79.0, 4.80.0, 4.81.0, 4.82.0, and 4.83.0.