Buffer overflow in PHP

CVE-2014-8626

Stack-based buffer overflow in the date_from_ISO8601 function in ext/xmlrpc/libxmlrpc/xmlrpc.c in PHP before 5.2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by including a timezone field in a date, leading to improper XML-RPC encoding.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.058 (92.8th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 92.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2014-8626: held from 0.058 to 0.058.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.058 · newest: 0.058 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • PHP — versions 5.2.0, 5.2.1, 5.2.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

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