CVE-2016-7131

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 10
Modified
Published: 12 Sept 2016, 01:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 01:50

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
41/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
6.38% LOW
6% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
1 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

12 Sept 2016, 01:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 01:50
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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 Metrics

  • v3.1HIGHScore: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • v2.0MEDIUMScore: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 6.38% Percentile: 91%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-476NULL Pointer Dereference

    The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Systems

  • UnknownPHP

    7.0.0 | 7.0.1 | 7.0.2 | 7.0.3 | 7.0.4 | 7.0.5 | 7.0.6 | 7.0.7 | 7.0.8 | 7.0.9 | ≤ 5.6.24

References (11)