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CVE-2016-9138

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-01-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

PHP through 5.6.27 and 7.x through 7.0.12 mishandles property modification during __wakeup processing, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted serialized data, as demonstrated by Exception::__toString with DateInterval::__wakeup.

Affected products

• PHP: through 5.6.27; 7.0.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5 (+7)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/01/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95268
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73147
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/01/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95268
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73147

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