CVE-2025-6491 (GCVE-0-2025-6491)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-13 22:10
Modified
2025-07-14 15:59
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Summary
In PHP versions:8.1.* before 8.1.33, 8.2.* before 8.2.29, 8.3.* before 8.3.23, 8.4.* before 8.4.10 when parsing XML data in SOAP extensions, overly large (>2Gb) XML namespace prefix may lead to null pointer dereference. This may lead to crashes and affect the availability of the target server.
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PHP Group PHP Version: 8.1.*   ≤
Version: 8.2.*   ≤
Version: 8.3.*   ≤
Version: 8.4.*   ≤
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