phpWhois arbitrary code execution via a crafted whois record

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

🎯 Affected products9

• composer/jsmitty12/phpwhois:< 5.1.0
• composer/phpwhois/phpwhois:<= 4.2.5
• composer/brightlocal/phpwhois:<= 4.2.5
• composer/david-garcia/phpwhois:<= 4.3.1
• composer/ivankristianto/phpwhois:<= 4.3.0
• composer/kazist/phpwhois:<= 4.2.6
• composer/serluck/phpwhois:<= 4.2.6
• composer/simple-updates/phpwhois:<= 1.0.0
• composer/truckersmp/phpwhois:<= 4.3.1

🔗 References (16)

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5243
• https://github.com/jsmitty12/phpWhois/issues/19
• https://github.com/Gemorroj/phpwhois/commit/91c937e03c876ba1290b6de2a3ad953d2105fdd0
• https://github.com/sparc/phpWhois.org/commit/5cc572490c9053d46598ec9348a11e36a5a33a46#diff-f150ae17da7341bf6c2eff928684b3a3
• https://blog.nettitude.com/uk/cve-2015-5243-phpwhois-remote-code-execution
• https://github.com/jsmitty12/phpWhois/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
• https://github.com/sbaresearch/advisories/tree/public/2018/SBA-ADV-20180425-01_phpWhois_Code_Execution
• https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/brightlocal/phpwhois/CVE-2015-5243.yaml
• https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/david-garcia/phpwhois/CVE-2015-5243.yaml
• https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/ivankristianto/phpwhois/CVE-2015-5243.yaml
• https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/kazist/phpwhois/CVE-2015-5243.yaml
• https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/phpwhois/phpwhois/CVE-2015-5243.yaml
• https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/serluck/phpwhois/CVE-2015-5243.yaml
• https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/simple-updates/phpwhois/CVE-2015-5243.yaml
• https://github.com/FriendsOfPHP/security-advisories/blob/master/truckersmp/phpwhois/CVE-2015-5243.yaml
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c95f-27gx-6vq9