Vulnerability identifier: #VU25110

Vulnerability risk: High

CVSSv3.1: 7.1 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7060

CWE-ID: CWE-125

Exploitation vector: Network

Exploit availability: No

Vulnerable software:
PHP
Universal components / Libraries / Scripting languages

Vendor: PHP Group

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information or perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when using certain "mbstring" functions to convert multibyte encodings. A remote attacker can supply data that will cause function "mbfl_filt_conv_big5_wchar" to read past the allocated buffer, trigger out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system or crash the application.

Mitigation
Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

PHP: 7.2.0 - 7.2.26, 7.3.0 - 7.3.13, 7.4.0 - 7.4.1

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External links
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=79037

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Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.