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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-7131

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…

HIGH 7.5EPSS 8.83%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (8.83%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

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.

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
8.83% probability · 95th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-476
Affected
php/php
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.