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CVE-2016-7478

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 42.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-01-11 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Zend/zend_exceptions.c in PHP, possibly 5.x before 5.6.28 and 7.x before 7.0.13, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted Exception object in serialized data, a related issue to CVE-2015-8876.

Affected products

• PHP: 5.0.0, 5.0.0-beta1, 5.0.0-beta2, 5.0.0-beta3, 5.0.0-beta4, 5.0.0-rc1 (+196)

References

• http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/12/27/check-point-discovers-three-zero-day-vulnerabilities-web-programming-language-php-7
• http://blog.checkpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/PHP_Technical_Report.pdf
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95150
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73093
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180112-0001/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDcaPstAuPk
• http://blog.checkpoint.com/2016/12/27/check-point-discovers-three-zero-day-vulnerabilities-web-programming-language-php-7
• http://blog.checkpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/PHP_Technical_Report.pdf
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95150
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73093
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180112-0001/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDcaPstAuPk

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