CVE-2016-7132: php NULL Pointer Dereference
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2016-7132 is a high (CVSS 7.5) NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in php. EPSS estimates a 8.83% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95.2% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Public exploit (reference, Date unknown)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 9 · Related 6Timeline
- 12-09-2016PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability 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 an invalid wddxPacket XML document that is mishandled in a wddx_deserialize call, as demonstrated by a stray element inside a boolean element, leading to incorrect pop processing.
CVSS metrics
4 scores · 2 sources · 3 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
8.83%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
95%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 8.83% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
1 foundExploit Reference (bugs.php.net)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu2 products
- php5< 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.20
- php7.0< 7.0.8-0ubuntu0.16.04.3
Php1 product
- phpEOL7.0.0 | 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
2 vendors · 3 products
References
17 links- github.com/php/php-src/commit/a14fdb9746262549bbbb96abb87338bacd147e1b?w=1X Refsource CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatch
Show all 17 references
- github.com/php/php-src/commit/0c8a2a2cd1056b7dc403eacb5d2c0eec6ce47c6fX Refsource CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory
- php.net/ChangeLog-5.phpREPORT
- php.net/ChangeLog-7.phpREPORT