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CVE-2025-14180 (GCVE-0-2025-14180)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-27 19:21 – Updated: 2025-12-29 16:00
VLAI
Title
NULL Pointer Dereference in PDO quoting
Summary
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Severity
8.2 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-29 15:59 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
PHP Group PHP Affected: 8.1.* , < 8.1.34 (semver)
Affected: 8.2.* , < 8.2.30 (semver)
Affected: 8.3.* , < 8.3.29 (semver)
Affected: 8.4.* , < 8.4.16 (semver)
Affected: 8.5.* , < 8.5.1 (semver)
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Date Public
2025-12-18 00:00
Credits
Aleksey Solovev (Positive Technologies)
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