CVE-2016-7125

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7125
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7125.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-7125
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-09-12T01:59:03Z
Modified
2025-10-21T03:59:34.651999Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

ext/session/session.c in PHP before 5.6.25 and 7.x before 7.0.10 skips invalid session names in a way that triggers incorrect parsing, which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary-type session data by leveraging control of a session name, as demonstrated by object injection.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/php/php-src

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/php/php-src
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
8763c6090d627d8bb0ee1d030c30e58f406be9ce

Affected versions

Other

NEWS
NEWS-cvs2svn

php-5.*

php-5.3.23RC1
php-5.3.29
php-5.3.29RC1
php-5.4.30RC1
php-5.4.32RC1
php-5.4.4RC2
php-5.5.24RC1
php-5.6.18RC1
php-5.6.19RC1
php-5.6.22RC1
php-5.6.23RC1
php-5.6.24RC1

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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