CVE-2016-7131
HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: September 12, 2016 at 01:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:52 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPHP
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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 9%
Description
ext/wddx/wddx.c in PHP before 5.6.25 and 7.x before 7.0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed wddxPacket XML document that is mishandled in a wddx_deserialize call, as demonstrated by a tag that lacks a < (less than) character.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (11)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/02/9Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.htmlVDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92768VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036680x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitIssue Tracking
Source: [email protected]
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72790x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/0c8a2a2cd1056b7dc403eacb5d2c0eec6ce47c6fCVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-476
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