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CVE-2014-5120

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-5120 describes a path traversal vulnerability in the GD component of PHP versions 5.4.x before 5.4.32 and 5.5.x before 5.5.16. This flaw allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files by injecting null byte sequences (%00) into pathnames processed by various image handling functions. With a CVSS score of 6.4, this vulnerability has a network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and can lead to partial integrity and availability impacts. Despite its potential, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.5.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.4.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.4MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
16.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1693 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: php-0:5.4.16-23.el7_0.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: php54-php-0:5.4.16-22.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: php55-php-0:5.5.6-13.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUSFixed in: php54-php-0:5.4.16-22.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUSFixed in: php55-php-0:5.5.6-13.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUSFixed in: php54-php-0:5.4.16-22.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUSFixed in: php55-php-0:5.5.6-13.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: php54-php-0:5.4.16-22.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUSFixed in: php55-php-0:5.5.6-13.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: php54-php-0:5.4.16-22.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: php55-php-0:5.5.6-13.el7
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-5120Moderate

php: gd extension NUL byte injection in file names

Jul 31, 2014

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00024.html
php.net / ChangeLog-5.php
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1327.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1765.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-1766.html
bugs.php.net / bug.php
Vendor Advisory
support.apple.com / HT204659
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html