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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-15132

This could be abused to find files on paths outside of the allowed directories.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 5.14%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (5.14%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An issue was discovered in ext/standard/link_win32.c in PHP before 5.6.37, 7.0.x before 7.0.31, 7.1.x before 7.1.20, and 7.2.x before 7.2.8. The linkinfo function on Windows doesn't implement the open_basedir check. This could be abused to find files on paths outside of the allowed directories.

CVSS 3.0
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS
5.14% probability · 92th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-200
Affected
php/php · netapp/storage automation store
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%5%10%27 October 2026: 5.14%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 5.1% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.