Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-5772

Title: Php RCE

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-5772.

CWE Category CWE-415
Published Date Aug 07, 2016
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.8 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
15.93%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-5772: 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.

Impacted Vendors

P
php 1
P
php_group 1
S
suse 1

Reference Links

http://github.com/php/php-src/commit/a44c89e8af7c2410f4bfc5e097be2a5d0639a60c?w=1 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00025.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00003.html http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3618 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/23/4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91398 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72340 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731 https://support.apple.com/HT207170 http://github.com/php/php-src/commit/a44c89e8af7c2410f4bfc5e097be2a5d0639a60c?w=1 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Sep/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00004.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-08/msg00025.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-08/msg00003.html http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php http://php.net/ChangeLog-7.php http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3618 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/23/4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91398 https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=72340 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731 https://support.apple.com/HT207170
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity CRITICAL
9.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2016-5772 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.