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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-08-17 05:48

Modified

2026-08-17 06:10

Summary

Stack overflow in phar with circular symlinks

Details

Circular symbolic links in phar archives could lead to unbounded recursion, exhausting the C stack and crashing the PHP process, in PHP versions from 8.2. before 8.2.33, from 8.3. before 8.3.33, from 8.4. before 8.4.24, and from 8.5. before 8.5.9.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "libphp",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/libphp"
      },
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            {
              "introduced": "8.2.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "8.2.33"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "8.3.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "8.3.33"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "8.4.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "8.4.24"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "8.5.0"
            },
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              "fixed": "8.5.9"
            }
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          "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
          "type": "CVSS_V4"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-7260"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Medium"
  },
  "details": "Circular symbolic links in phar archives could lead to unbounded recursion, exhausting the C stack and crashing the PHP process,\u00a0in PHP versions\u00a0from 8.2.* before 8.2.33, from 8.3.* before 8.3.33, from 8.4.* before 8.4.24, and from 8.5.* before 8.5.9.",
  "id": "BIT-libphp-2026-7260",
  "modified": "2026-08-17T06:10:32.268Z",
  "published": "2026-08-17T05:48:07.566Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-vc5h-9ppw-p5f3"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-7260"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2",
  "summary": "Stack overflow in phar with circular symlinks"
}

CVE-2026-7260 (GCVE-0-2026-7260)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-30 11:22 – Updated: 2026-07-30 12:15

Title

Stack overflow in phar with circular symlinks

Summary

Circular symbolic links in phar archives could lead to unbounded recursion, exhausting the C stack and crashing the PHP process, in PHP versions from 8.2.* before 8.2.33, from 8.3.* before 8.3.33, from 8.4.* before 8.4.24, and from 8.5.* before 8.5.9.

Severity

5.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:U

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-07-30 12:15 UTC

CWE

CWE-121 - Stack-based buffer overflow

Assigner

php mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisorie…	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
PHP Group	PHP	Affected: 8.2.* , < 8.2.33 (semver) Affected: 8.3.* , < 8.3.33 (semver) Affected: 8.4.* , < 8.4.24 (semver) Affected: 8.5.* , < 8.5.9 (semver)

Credits

Calvin Young - eWalker Consulting (HK) Limited Enoch Chow - Isomorph Cyber Jakub Zelenka - The PHP Foundation

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2026-7260 (GCVE-0-2026-7260)

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