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CVE-2015-8617

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 22.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-01-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-134

Description

Format string vulnerability in the zend_throw_or_error function in Zend/zend_execute_API.c in PHP 7.x before 7.0.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in a string that is misused as a class name, leading to incorrect error handling.

Affected products

• PHP: 7.0.1

References

• http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034543
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71105
• https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/b101a6bbd4f2181c360bd38e7683df4a03cba83e
• http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034543
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=71105
• https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/b101a6bbd4f2181c360bd38e7683df4a03cba83e

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