{"id":"CVE-2020-11579","details":"An issue was discovered in Chadha PHPKB 9.0 Enterprise Edition. installer/test-connection.php (part of the installation process) allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to disclose local files on hosts running PHP before 7.2.16, or on hosts where the MySQL ALLOW LOCAL DATA INFILE option is enabled.","modified":"2026-08-07T11:31:16.404976098Z","published":"2020-09-03T18:15:12.707Z","database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:chadhaajay:phpkb:9.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*"],"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"9.0"},{"last_affected":"9.0"}],"source":"CPE_STRING","vendor_product":"chadhaajay:phpkb"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.phpkb.com"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://shielder.it/"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://github.com/ShielderSec/CVE-2020-11579"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://www.shielder.it/blog/mysql-and-cve-2020-11579-exploitation/"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/php/php-src","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"260468acea4651c4721ec6fd3fa5f233deea2bca"}],"database_specific":{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"7.2.16"}],"source":"DESCRIPTION"}}],"versions":["POST_PHP7_NSAPI_REMOVAL","PRE_PHP7_NSAPI_REMOVAL","PRE_PHP7_EREG_MYSQL_REMOVALS","PRE_PHP7_REMOVALS","POST_PHP7_REMOVALS","POST_AST_MERGE","PRE_AST_MERGE","POST_64BIT_BRANCH_MERGE","PRE_64BIT_BRANCH_MERGE","POST_PHPNG_MERGE"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-11579.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.8.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"}]}