CVE-2026-7260 (GCVE-0-2026-7260)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-30 11:22
Modified
2026-07-30 12:15
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:U
CWE
  • CWE-121 - Stack-based buffer overflow
Summary
Circular symbolic links in phar archives could lead to unbounded recursion, exhausting the C stack and crashing the PHP process, in PHP versions from 8.2.* before 8.2.33, from 8.3.* before 8.3.33, from 8.4.* before 8.4.24, and from 8.5.* before 8.5.9.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
PHP Group PHP Version: 8.2.*   ≤
Version: 8.3.*   ≤
Version: 8.4.*   ≤
Version: 8.5.*   ≤
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