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PHP3 Physical Path Disclosure Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Web application abuses
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Solution Type
Solution Type
Mitigation
Created
Created
18 years ago
Modified
Modified
4 years ago
Summary
PHP3 will reveal the physical path of the webroot when asked for a non-existent PHP3 file if it is incorrectly configured.
Insight
Insight
Although printing errors to the output is useful for debugging applications, this feature should not be enabled on production servers.
Solution
Solution
In the PHP configuration file change display_errors to 'Off': display_errors = Off