Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in phpBB 2.0.17 and Earlier

CVE-2005-3416 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

phpBB 2.0.17 and earlier, when register_globals is enabled and the session_start function has not been called to handle a session, allows remote attackers to bypass security checks by setting the $_SESSION and $HTTP_SESSION_VARS variables to strings instead of arrays, which causes an array_merge function call to fail.

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