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CVE-2019-3556 — HHVM supports the use of an "admin" server which accepts administrative requests

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 whi

CVSS
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EPSS
1.67% (top 18.10%)
CWE
CWE-22
Published
2021-10-26T20:05:10.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-04T19:12:09.554Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

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…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
FacebookHHVM4.83.1, 4.83.0, 4.82.1, 4.82.0, 4.81.1, 4.81.0, 4.80.1, 4.80.0, 4.79.1, 4.79.0, 4.78.1, 4.57.0, 4.56.2, unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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