CVE-2016-3141

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 8
Modified
Published: 31 Mar 2016, 16:00
Last modified:05 Aug 2024, 23:47

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
high
70/100
CVSS Score
9.8 CRITICAL
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
72.28% CRITICAL
72% probability +37.38%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

31 Mar 2016, 16:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
05 Aug 2024, 23:47
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in wddx.c in the WDDX extension in PHP before 5.5.33 and 5.6.x before 5.6.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a wddx_deserialize call on XML data containing a crafted var element.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0•CRITICAL•Score: 9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•HIGH•Score: 7.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 72.28%• Percentile: 99%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

    The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

  • apple•mac_os_x

    ≤ 10.11.4

  • Unknown•PHP

    ≤ 5.5.32 | 5.6.0 | 5.6.1 | 5.6.2 | 5.6.3 | 5.6.4 | 5.6.5 | 5.6.6 | 5.6.7 | 5.6.8 | 5.6.9 | 5.6.10 | 5.6.11 | 5.6.12 | 5.6.13 | 5.6.14 | 5.6.15 | 5.6.16 | 5.6.17 | 5.6.18

References (15)