THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-7131
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2016-7131

Php vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
8.8%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
ext/wddx/wddx.c in PHP before 5.6.25 and 7.x before 7.0.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed wddxPacket XML document that is mishandled in a wddx_deserialize call, as demonstrated by a tag that lacks a < (less than) character.
Affected vendor
Php
Affected product
Php
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2016-09-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 8.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-7131

  • Confirm whether Php Php is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-7131.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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