Description
In PHP versions before 7.4.31, 8.0.24 and 8.1.11, the phar uncompressor code would recursively uncompress "quines" gzip files, resulting in an infinite loop.
References (8)
Core 8
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XNIEABBH5XCXLFWWZYIDE457SPEDZTXV/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VI3E6A3ZTH2RP7OMLJHSVFIEQBIFM6RF/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2L5SUVYGAKSWODUQPZFBUB3AL6E6CSEV/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5277
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-03
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00030.html
Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=81726
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221209-0001/
Scores
CVSS v3
2.3
EPSS
0.0056
EPSS Percentile
42.2%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-674
CWE-835
Status
published
Products (6)
debian/debian_linux
10.0
debian/debian_linux
11.0
fedoraproject/fedora
35
fedoraproject/fedora
36
fedoraproject/fedora
37
php/php
< 7.4.31
Published
Sep 28, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026