CVEs-PoC/2014/CVE-2014-5459.md

### [CVE-2014-5459](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-5459)
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### Description

The PEAR_REST class in REST.php in PEAR in PHP through 5.6.0 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a (1) rest.cachefile or (2) rest.cacheid file in /tmp/pear/cache/, related to the retrieveCacheFirst and useLocalCache functions.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html

#### Github
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