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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-6639

Cloud Foundry PHP Buildpack (aka php-buildpack) before 4.3.18 and PHP Buildpack Cf-release before 242, as used in Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Elastic Runtime before 1.6.38 and 1.7.x before 1.7.19 and other products, place the .profile file in the htdocs directory, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an HTTP GET request for this file.

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31 Oct 2026, 09:46 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2016-6639

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Sept 2016, 02:59 UTC

Cloud Foundry PHP Buildpack (aka php-buildpack) before 4.3.18 and PHP Buildpack Cf-release before 242, as used in Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Elastic Runtime before 1.6.38 and 1.7.x before 1.7.19 and other products, place the .profile file in the htdocs directory, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an HTTP GET request for this file.

osv:CVE-2016-6639
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6639",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-6639",
    "summary": "Cloud Foundry PHP Buildpack (aka php-buildpack) before 4.3.18 and PHP Buildpack Cf-release before 242, as used in Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) Elastic Runtime before 1.6.38 and 1.7.x before 1.7.19 and other products, place the .profile file in the htdocs directory, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an HTTP GET request for this file.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-6639",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-6639",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-6639"
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
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                {
                  "fixed": "e2db3ccd4812e0c0aba20720fc51789d981aba67"
                }
              ],
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          ],
          "versions": [
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            "v4.1.3",
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            "v2.0.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:56.853817892Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-6639",
        "https://github.com/cloudfoundry/php-buildpack/commit/e2db3ccd4812e0c0aba20720fc51789d981aba67"
      ],
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              "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.7.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.7.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.7.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.7.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.7.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.7.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.7.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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              "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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              "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:cloud_foundry_elastic_runtime:1.7.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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                    "introduced": "1.7.14"
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      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-6639",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 379841,
  "published_at": "2016-09-18T02:59:12.463+00:00"
}