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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2026-91765 json

SOAP: Unbounded Recursion in Server-Side cleanup_xml_node

published 2026-09-24 45 d ago modified 2026-10-26 13 d ago also BIT-libphp-2026-91765 , BIT-php-2026-91765 , BIT-php-min-2026-91765 , EUVD-2026-87355 , GHSA-rgrp-mwpx-f6rm

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 32%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami libphp 8.2.34, 8.3.35, 8.4.26, 8.5.11
  • bitnami php 8.2.34, 8.3.35, 8.4.26, 8.5.11
  • bitnami php-min 8.2.34, 8.3.35, 8.4.26, 8.5.11
  • PHP Group PHP 8.2.34, 8.3.35, 8.4.26, 8.5.11
  • php8.2 Debian 12 8.2.34-1~deb12u1
  • php8.4 Debian 13 8.4.26-1~deb13u1
  • php8.4 Debian 14 8.4.26-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-91765

  • php8.1 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.27
  • php8.3 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 8.3.6-0ubuntu0.24.04.12
  • php8.5 Ubuntu 26.10 8.5.9-0ubuntu2
  • php8.5 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 8.5.4-0ubuntu1.4
  • php5 Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29+esm17
  • php7.0 Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm21
  • php7.2 Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.17+esm13
  • php7.4 Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 7.4.3-4ubuntu2.29+esm4

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-91765

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  • php hummingbird 1 8.5.11-2.hum1
  • php-gd hummingbird 1 8.5.11-2.hum1
  • php-cli hummingbird 1 8.5.11-2.hum1
  • php-dba hummingbird 1 8.5.11-2.hum1
  • php-dbg hummingbird 1 8.5.11-2.hum1
  • php-ffi hummingbird 1 8.5.11-2.hum1
  • php-fpm hummingbird 1 8.5.11-2.hum1
  • php-gmp hummingbird 1 8.5.11-2.hum1

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:70720

  • php7 SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +7 more 7.4.33-150400.4.81.1
  • php7-fpm SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +6 more 7.4.33-150400.4.81.1
  • php7-test SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP7 7.4.33-150400.4.81.2
  • php7-embed SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP7 7.4.33-150400.4.81.1
  • php7-fastcgi SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +6 more 7.4.33-150400.4.81.1
  • apache2-mod_php7 SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +7 more 7.4.33-150400.4.81.1
  • php8 SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS +5 more 8.0.30-150400.4.76.1
  • php8-fpm SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4, SLES 15 SP5-LTSS +5 more 8.0.30-150400.4.76.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:4853-1SUSE-SU-2026:4651-1SUSE-SU-2026:4603-1SUSE-SU-2026:4602-1SUSE-SU-2026:24158-1

  • php8 openSUSE Leap 16.0 8.4.26-160000.1.1
  • php8-fpm openSUSE Leap 16.0 8.4.26-160000.1.1
  • php8-test openSUSE Leap 16.0 8.4.26-160000.1.1
  • php8-embed openSUSE Leap 16.0 8.4.26-160000.1.1
  • php8-fastcgi openSUSE Leap 16.0 8.4.26-160000.1.1
  • apache2-mod_php8 openSUSE Leap 16.0 8.4.26-160000.1.1
  • php8 openSUSE Tumbleweed 8.5.11-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:22045-1openSUSE-SU-2026:11901-1

  • php AlmaLinux 10 8.3.36-1.el10_2
  • php-gd AlmaLinux 10 8.3.36-1.el10_2
  • php-cli AlmaLinux 10 8.3.36-1.el10_2
  • php-dba AlmaLinux 10 8.3.36-1.el10_2
  • php-dbg AlmaLinux 10 8.3.36-1.el10_2
  • php-ffi AlmaLinux 10 8.3.36-1.el10_2
  • php-fpm AlmaLinux 10 8.3.36-1.el10_2
  • php-gmp AlmaLinux 10 8.3.36-1.el10_2

almalinux advisories ALSA-2026:87070ALSA-2026:87071ALSA-2026:87072ALSA-2026:87073ALSA-2026:87079ALSA-2026:87080

  • php Rocky Linux 8 8.2.35-1.module+el8.10.0+40394+d21b33fb
  • libzip Rocky Linux 8 1.7.3-1.module+el8.10.0+1605+02e07af7
  • libzip Rocky Linux 8 1.7.3-1.module+el8.10.0+1596+477f03f8
  • libzip Rocky Linux 8 1.7.3-1.module+el8.10.0+1911+f499711e
  • php-pear Rocky Linux 8 1:1.10.14-1.module+el8.10.0+1911+f499711e
  • php-pear Rocky Linux 8 1:1.10.14-1.module+el8.10.0+1596+477f03f8
  • php-pecl-rrd Rocky Linux 8 2.0.3-1.module+el8.10.0+1911+f499711e
  • php-pecl-rrd Rocky Linux 8 2.0.3-1.module+el8.10.0+1596+477f03f8

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2026:87073RLSA-2026:87070RLSA-2026:87071RLSA-2026:87072RLSA-2026:87079RLSA-2026:87151

  • php82 Alpine 3.22 8.2.35-r0
  • php83 Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 8.3.36-r0
  • php83 Alpine 3.24 8.3.35-r0
  • php84 Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 8.4.27-r0
  • php84 Alpine 3.24 8.4.26-r0
  • php85 Alpine 3.23 8.5.12-r0
  • php85 Alpine 3.24 8.5.11-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-91765

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-91765 updated cvss 7.5

php: php: Denial of Service via unbounded recursion in SOAP parser

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 php, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, php-pdo, +20 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 php, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, php-pdo, +18 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 php, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-dbg, php-ffi, +18 more
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) php 7.4.33-8.module+el8.10.0+25117+30337cca, php 8.2.35-1.module+el8.10.0+25110+f67151d2, libzip 1.6.1-1.module+el8.10.0+22485+a3539972, libzip 1.7.3-1.module+el8.10.0+20770+a5eca186, php-gd 7.4.33-8.module+el8.10.0+25117+30337cca, php-gd 8.2.35-1.module+el8.10.0+25110+f67151d2, +60 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:87080
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) php 8.0.30-8.el9_8.1, php-gd 8.0.30-8.el9_8.1, php-cli 8.0.30-8.el9_8.1, php-dba 8.0.30-8.el9_8.1, php-dbg 8.0.30-8.el9_8.1, php-ffi 8.0.30-8.el9_8.1, +77 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:87072
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10) php 8.3.36-1.el10_2, php-gd 8.3.36-1.el10_2, php8.4 8.4.27-1.el10_2, php-cli 8.3.36-1.el10_2, php-dba 8.3.36-1.el10_2, php-dbg 8.3.36-1.el10_2, +42 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:87070
  • Red Hat Hardened Images php 8.5.11-2.hum1, php-gd 8.5.11-2.hum1, php-cli 8.5.11-2.hum1, php-dba 8.5.11-2.hum1, php-dbg 8.5.11-2.hum1, php-ffi 8.5.11-2.hum1, +21 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:70720
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-workbench-codeserver-datascience-cpu-py312-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/code-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
41 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 32% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-rgrp-mwpx-f6rm referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami libphp
>=8.2.0, <8.2.34
>=8.3.0, <8.3.35
>=8.4.0, <8.4.26
>=8.5.0, <8.5.11
8.2.34
8.3.35
8.4.26
8.5.11
bitnami php
>=8.2.0, <8.2.34
>=8.3.0, <8.3.35
>=8.4.0, <8.4.26
>=8.5.0, <8.5.11
8.2.34
8.3.35
8.4.26
8.5.11
bitnami php-min
>=8.2.0, <8.2.34
>=8.3.0, <8.3.35
>=8.4.0, <8.4.26
>=8.5.0, <8.5.11
8.2.34
8.3.35
8.4.26
8.5.11

Affected products

  • PHP Group PHP

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

The maintainers of php/php-src published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.