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CVE-2014-0185

php: insecure default permissions on the FPM unix socket

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

3.6

CVSS 2.0

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Published · April 30, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

sapi/fpm/fpm/fpm_unix.c in the FastCGI Process Manager (FPM) in PHP before 5.4.28 and 5.5.x before 5.5.12 uses 0666 permissions for the UNIX socket, which allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted FastCGI client.

Statement

This issue did not affect the php and php53 packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue is not planned to be addressed in the php packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7. Refer to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2014-0185 for further details.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 3.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CWE not specified