{"id":"CVE-2020-7059","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-7059","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:51:29.583Z","title":"This may lead to information disclosure or crash.","description":"When using fgetss() function to read data with stripping tags, in PHP versions 7.2.x below 7.2.27, 7.3.x below 7.3.14 and 7.4.x below 7.4.2 it is possible to supply data that will cause this function to read past the allocated buffer. This may lead to information disclosure or crash.","published":"2020-02-10T08:15:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:24:17.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@php.net","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.1,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-125"],"affected":["php/php","tenable/tenable.sc","oracle/communications diameter signaling router","opensuse/leap","debian/debian linux"],"epss":{"score":0.07402,"percentile":0.94393,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (7.40%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00023.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@php.net"},{"url":"https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=79099","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@php.net"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00030.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@php.net"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/27","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@php.net"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/31","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@php.net"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2021/Jan/3","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@php.net"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-57","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@php.net"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200221-0002/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@php.net"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4279-1/","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@php.net"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4626","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@php.net"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4628","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@php.net"},{"url":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@php.net"},{"url":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@php.net"},{"url":"https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-14","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"security@php.net"},{"url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00023.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=79099","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00030.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/27","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/31","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2021/Jan/3","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-57","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200221-0002/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4279-1/","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4626","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4628","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2021-14","tags":["Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7059","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}