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CVE-2026-91765: SOAP: Unbounded Recursion in Server-Side cleanup_xml_node
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2026-09-25 · updated 2026-10-23
- Weakness: CWE-674
Description
cleanup_xml_node() in the SOAP XML parser recurses once per XML nesting level with no depth limit. An unauthenticated attacker can post a SOAP request containing tens of thousands of nested elements to any SoapServer endpoint, exhaust the stack and crash the process. The same unbounded recursion exists in the SOAP value decoder and in the WSDL node search helper.
Affected products
- PHP: from 8.2.0 before 8.2.34; from 8.3.0 before 8.3.35; from 8.4.0 before 8.4.26; from 8.5.0 before 8.5.11 — fixed in 8.2.34, 8.3.35, 8.4.26, 8.5.11
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: PHP 8.2.34, 8.3.35, 8.4.26, 8.5.11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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