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CVE-2019-9641

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-03-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-908

Description

An issue was discovered in the EXIF component in PHP before 7.1.27, 7.2.x before 7.2.16, and 7.3.x before 7.3.3. There is an uninitialized read in exif_process_IFD_in_TIFF.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• NetApp Storage Automation Store: all versions
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1, 42.3
• PHP: before 7.1.27; from 7.2.0 before 7.2.16; from 7.3.0 before 7.3.3 — fixed in 7.1.27, 7.2.16, 7.3.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PHP 7.1.27, 7.2.16, 7.3.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00083.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00104.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00041.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00044.html
• https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77509
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00043.html
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190502-0007/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3922-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3922-2/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3922-3/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4403
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00083.html

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