CVE-2007-5128

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2007-5128 · Published 27/09/2007 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2007-5128 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting simpnews (boesch-it), php (php).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 69.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
simpnews boesch-it	`= 2.41.03`	No fix yet
php php	`≤ 5.0.0`	No fix yet

Description

SimpNews 2.41.03 on Windows, when PHP before 5.0.0 is used, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an certain link_date parameter to events.php, which reveals the path in an error message due to an unsupported argument type for the mktime function on Windows.

References

forum.boesch-it.de/viewtopic.php · Patch
securityreason.com/securityalert/3174
netvigilance.com/advisory0068
securityfocus.com/archive/1/480588/100/0/threaded

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