CVE-2015-8878

MEDIUM

PHP 5.5.0-5.5.27 - Denial of Service via Race Condition in Temporary File Handling

Title source: llm

Description

main/php_open_temporary_file.c in PHP before 5.5.28 and 5.6.x before 5.6.12 does not ensure thread safety, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (race condition and heap memory corruption) by leveraging an application that performs many temporary-file accesses.

References (2)

Core 2

Core References

Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=70002

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

Scores

CVSS v3 5.9

EPSS 0.0037

EPSS Percentile 59.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-119 CWE-362

Status published

Products (1)

php/php 5.5.0 - 5.5.28

Published May 22, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026