CVE-2016-7125

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2016-09-12 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-74

Description

ext/session/session.c in PHP before 5.6.25 and 7.x before 7.0.10 skips invalid session names in a way that triggers incorrect parsing, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary-type session data by leveraging control of a session name, as demonstrated by object injection.

Affected products

PHP: through 5.6.24; 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5 (+4)

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/02/9
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-7.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92552
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036680
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72681
https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/8763c6090d627d8bb0ee1d030c30e58f406be9ce?w=1
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-22
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-19
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/02/9
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html

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