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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-11042

This may lead to information disclosure or crash.

HIGH 7.1EPSS 4.42%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (4.42%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

When PHP EXIF extension is parsing EXIF information from an image, e.g. via exif_read_data() function, in PHP versions 7.1.x below 7.1.31, 7.2.x below 7.2.21 and 7.3.x below 7.3.8 it is possible to supply it with data what will cause it to read past the allocated buffer. This may lead to information disclosure or crash.

CVSS 3.1
7.1 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
EPSS
4.42% probability · 91th percentile
Public exploits
None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-125
Affected
php/php · debian/debian linux · canonical/ubuntu linux · apple/mac os x · opensuse/leap · redhat/software collections · tenable/tenable.sc
Source
security@php.net
EPSS trend
0%3%5%27 October 2026: 4.42%27 October 202627 October 2026

EPSS 4.4% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.