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Fencer Vulns
high 8.1

CVE-2019-9675 json

An issue was discovered in PHP 7.x before 7.1.27 and 7.3.x before 7.3.3.

published 2019-03-11 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-19041

cvss
8.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.0%
EPSS 6.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in PHP 7.x before 7.1.27 and 7.3.x before 7.3.3. phar_tar_writeheaders_int in ext/phar/tar.c has a buffer overflow via a long link value. NOTE: The vendor indicates that the link value is used only when an archive contains a symlink, which currently cannot happen: "This issue allows theoretical compromise of security, but a practical attack is usually impossible.

Patch / fix

  • php php 7.1.27, 7.3.3
  • php5 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29
  • php7.0 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.3
  • php7.2 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 7.2.15-0ubuntu0.18.04.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9675

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

  • php7 SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS +8 more 7.2.34-150000.4.103.1
  • php7 SLE Module for Web and Scripting 15, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 7.2.5-4.32.1
  • php5 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3, SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 5.5.14-109.58.1
  • php72 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3, SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 7.2.5-1.10.1
  • php53 SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 +1 more 5.3.17-112.58.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:4067-1SUSE-SU-2019:1461-1SUSE-SU-2019:1325-1SUSE-SU-2019:0988-1SUSE-SU-2019:14013-1

  • php7 openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.4.24-1.1
  • php8 openSUSE Tumbleweed 8.0.11-1.1
  • php7 openSUSE Leap 15.0 7.2.5-lp150.2.19.1
  • php7 openSUSE Leap 15.1 7.2.5-lp151.6.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11167-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11169-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1573-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1572-1

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-2019-9675 updated cvss 3.7

php: buffer overflow in ext/phar/tar.c

  • 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 Enterprise Linux 8 php, libzip, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-dbg, +30 more Red Hat Software Collections rh-php70-php, rh-php71-php, rh-php72-php, rh-php70-php-gd, rh-php71-php-gd, rh-php72-php-gd, +80 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

6.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
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References

Sources

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