CVEs-PoC/2008/CVE-2008-2665.md

### [CVE-2008-2665](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2665)
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### Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the posix_access function in PHP 5.2.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to bypass safe_mode restrictions via a .. (dot dot) in an http URL, which results in the URL being canonicalized to a local filename after the safe_mode check has successfully run.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3941

#### Github
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