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CVE-2007-3806

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-3806 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the glob function of PHP 5.2.3, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution. This flaw arises from an invalid flags parameter value, likely due to memory corruption or an invalid read on Windows platforms, and possibly an uninitialized glob structure. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring network access and medium attack complexity to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-4181) exists for a denial-of-service exploit, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
10.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-4181 · Jul 14, 2007
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1074 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-3806

php invalid read in glob

References

cvs.php.net / viewvc.cgi/php-src/ext/standard/dir.c
cvs.php.net / viewvc.cgi/php-src/ext/standard/dir.c
osvdb.org / 36085
secunia.com / advisories/26085
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/26642
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/27102
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/30158
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/30288
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/35437
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1572
debian.org / security/2008/dsa-1578
exploit-db.com / exploits/4181
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200710-02.xml
php.net / ChangeLog-5.php
php.net / releases/5_2_4.php
securityfocus.com / bid/24922
securityfocus.com / bid/25498
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/2547
Vendor Advisory