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CVE-2016-5772

Published: Aug 7, 2016Updated: May 6, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-415
NVD MITRE
9.8CVSSCRITICAL
EPSS Score
9.8%
Top 5.1%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

Double free vulnerability in the php_wddx_process_data function in wddx.c in the WDDX extension in PHP before 5.5.37, 5.6.x before 5.6.23, and 7.x before 7.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted XML data that is mishandled in a wddx_deserialize call.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-415

Affected Products

n/an/a
UbuntuCanonical Ltd.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
PHPPHP GroupOSS Libraries
Debian GNU/LinuxСообщество свободного программного обеспечения
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
phpphp
Dev Tool
OSS Libraries / generic-library
canonical ltd.commercialGBOperating Systemsaka canonical
php grouposs-projectOSS Librariesaka php, pear
сообщество свободного программного обеспеченияoss-projectOperating Systemsaka сообщество свободного программного обеспечения, fsf
phposs-projectUSOSS Librariesaka php language, pecl, pear
and 6 more affected products View all →

Attack Graph

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Privilege Escalation
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References

http://github.com/php/php-src/commit/a44c89e8af7c2410f4bfc5e097be2a5d0639a60c?w=1
github.com
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00006.html
lists.apple.com
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org
and 11 more references View all →

Timeline

Published
Aug 7, 2016
Last Updated
May 6, 2026

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