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high 7.5

CVE-2014-0236 json

file before 5.18, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.6.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer…

published 2016-05-16 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-0274

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

file before 5.18, as used in the Fileinfo component in PHP before 5.6.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a zero root_storage value in a CDF file, related to cdf.c and readcdf.c.

Patch / fix

  • file Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:5.19-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0236

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-0236 updated cvss 4.3

file: root_storage NULL pointer deference flaw in CDF parser

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php, rpm, file, php53, cdrtools Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 php, file, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, +23 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 php, file, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, +21 more Red Hat Software Collections php54-php, php55-php, php54-php-gd, php55-php-gd, php54-php-cli, php54-php-dba, +44 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

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References

Sources

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