CVE-2026-7259 (GCVE-0-2026-7259)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-10 04:13
Modified
2026-05-11 13:13
Severity ?
2.1 (Low) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/AU:Y/U:Amber
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Summary
In PHP versions 8.2.* before 8.2.31, 8.3.* before 8.3.31, 8.4.* before 8.4.21, and 8.5.* before 8.5.6, a mismatch between encoding lists in Oniguruma and mbfl leads to  a NULL pointer dereference, resulting in a segmentation fault and denial of service. The vulnerability is exploitable when user-controlled input can influence the encoding passed to mb_regex_encoding().
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Impacted products
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PHP Group PHP Version: 8.2.*   ≤
Version: 8.3.*   ≤
Version: 8.4.*   ≤
Version: 8.5.*   ≤
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