CVE-2016-7398

CRITICAL

PHP <3.1.0beta2, <2.6.0beta2 - Code Injection

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A type confusion vulnerability in the merge_param() function of php_http_params.c in PHP's pecl-http extension 3.1.0beta2 (PHP 7) and earlier as well as 2.6.0beta2 (PHP 5) and earlier allows attackers to crash PHP and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted HTTP requests.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Exploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73055
Exploit, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73055&edit=1
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00022.html

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0572
EPSS Percentile 90.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-704
Status published
Products (3)
php/ext-http 2.6.0 (4 CPE variants)
php/ext-http 3.1.0 (4 CPE variants)
php/ext-http < 2.5.6
Published Sep 06, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026