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critical 9.8

CVE-2019-9025 in the critical feed json

An issue was discovered in PHP 7.3.x before 7.3.1.

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-18412

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.1%
EPSS 3.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in PHP 7.3.x before 7.3.1. An invalid multibyte string supplied as an argument to the mb_split() function in ext/mbstring/php_mbregex.c can cause PHP to execute memcpy() with a negative argument, which could read and write past buffers allocated for the data.

Patch / fix

  • php php 7.3.1

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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-2019-9025 updated cvss 7.3

php: Negative size parameter in mb_split

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 php, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, php-pdo, +20 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 php, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, php-pdo, +18 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 php, libzip, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-dbg, +30 more Red Hat Software Collections rh-php70-php, rh-php71-php, rh-php72-php, rh-php70-php-gd, rh-php71-php-gd, rh-php72-php-gd, +80 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

cisa ICSA-26-027-02 updated cvss 9.8

Festo Didactic SE MES PC

  • Festo Didactic SE MES PC shipped_with_Windows_10
    affected: vendor fix

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.07% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.php.net https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77367 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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