CVE-2016-7480

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-7480
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-7480.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-7480
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-01-11T07:59:00.143Z
Modified
2025-11-14T04:51:52.681552Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The SplObjectStorage unserialize implementation in ext/spl/spl_observer.c in PHP before 7.0.12 does not verify that a key is an object, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory access) via crafted serialized data.

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
61cdd1255d5b9c8453be71aacbbf682796ac77d4

Affected versions

Other

NEWS
NEWS-cvs2svn
POST_64BIT_BRANCH_MERGE
POST_AST_MERGE
POST_NATIVE_TLS_MERGE
POST_PHP7_EREG_MYSQL_REMOVALS
POST_PHP7_NSAPI_REMOVAL
POST_PHP7_REMOVALS
POST_PHPNG_MERGE
PRE_64BIT_BRANCH_MERGE
PRE_AST_MERGE
PRE_NATIVE_TLS_MERGE
PRE_PHP7_EREG_MYSQL_REMOVALS
PRE_PHP7_NSAPI_REMOVAL
PRE_PHP7_REMOVALS
PRE_PHPNG_MERGE

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

php-7.*

php-7.0.11RC1
php-7.0.3RC1
php-7.0.4RC1
php-7.0.5RC1
php-7.0.7RC1
php-7.0.8RC1
php-7.0.9RC1

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "digest": {
            "length": 2208.0,
            "function_hash": "120263227596398378617375601141451063602"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2016-7480-40b4ffdc",
        "target": {
            "file": "ext/spl/spl_observer.c",
            "function": "SPL_METHOD"
        },
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "source": "https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/61cdd1255d5b9c8453be71aacbbf682796ac77d4",
        "deprecated": false
    },
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "311234878759843067834920731248114505772",
                "50912414707171288631538515995604057141",
                "162017028089509586153324425077756765976",
                "242884483502019213952707469980360057644",
                "336387103315920007587990593317693867963",
                "21580564470928238072623097181749639560",
                "283797390797428005224407026009247451270",
                "219637822043791896869783149654081588089",
                "178852092846835038102390099040886447181",
                "136146387223299992562308475632779719063",
                "288364703481122890929991226047229929241",
                "126765909629768321856645271021163435983",
                "105038064802166019778237222904298848318",
                "257724883922067736173061222643725001998",
                "38772639687927117305721988887639643782",
                "167676080273695483373820046130328174003",
                "21336750416930265615946273101896440205",
                "242713924649718161698991874615444863252"
            ]
        },
        "id": "CVE-2016-7480-8f33d31a",
        "target": {
            "file": "ext/spl/spl_observer.c"
        },
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "source": "https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/61cdd1255d5b9c8453be71aacbbf682796ac77d4",
        "deprecated": false
    }
]