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critical 9.8

CVE-2016-9137 in the critical feed json

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CURLFile implementation in ext/curl/curl_file.c in PHP before 5.6.27 and 7.x before 7.0.12 allows remot…

published 2017-01-04 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-9954

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.3%
EPSS 5.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CURLFile implementation in ext/curl/curl_file.c in PHP before 5.6.27 and 7.x before 7.0.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted serialized data that is mishandled during __wakeup processing.

Patch / fix

  • php5 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.21
  • php7.0 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 7.0.15-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9137

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • php5 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP2, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP1, SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 5.5.14-86.2
  • imap SLED 12 SP2, SLED 12 SP1, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP2 +4 more 2007e_suse-22.1
  • php7 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP2, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP1, SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 7.0.7-25.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:2975-1SUSE-SU-2016:2941-1

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-2016-9137 updated cvss 8.1

php: Use after free in unserialize()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php, php53 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 Software Collections php54-php, php55-php, php54-php-gd, php55-php-gd, rh-php56-php, rh-php70-php, +102 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

5.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.php.net https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73147 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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