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critical 9.8

CVE-2019-9641 in the critical feed json

An issue was discovered in the EXIF component in PHP before 7.1.27, 7.2.x before 7.2.16, and 7.3.x before 7.3.3.

published 2019-03-08 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-19010

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
9.4%
EPSS 9.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in the EXIF component in PHP before 7.1.27, 7.2.x before 7.2.16, and 7.3.x before 7.3.3. There is an uninitialized read in exif_process_IFD_in_TIFF.

Patch / fix

  • php php 7.1.27, 7.2.16, 7.3.3
  • php5 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.29
  • php7.0 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.3
  • php7.2 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 7.2.15-0ubuntu0.18.04.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-9641

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  • php7 SLES for SAP 15 SP1, SLES for SAP 15, SLES 15-LTSS +8 more 7.2.34-150000.4.103.1
  • php7 SLE Module for Web and Scripting 15, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 7.2.5-4.32.1
  • php5 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3, SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 5.5.14-109.51.6
  • php53 SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 +1 more 5.3.17-112.58.1
  • php72 SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3, SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 7.2.5-1.7.1
  • tidy SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3, SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 1.0.20100204cvs-26.2.1
  • libmemcached SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES 12 SP4 +3 more 1.0.18-3.2.1
  • php72-memcached SLE Module for Web and Scripting 12 3.1.3-1.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2022:4067-1SUSE-SU-2019:1461-1SUSE-SU-2019:0985-1SUSE-SU-2019:14013-1SUSE-RU-2019:0823-1

  • php7 openSUSE Tumbleweed 7.4.24-1.1
  • php8 openSUSE Tumbleweed 8.0.11-1.1
  • php7 openSUSE Leap 15.0 7.2.5-lp150.2.19.1
  • php7 openSUSE Leap 15.1 7.2.5-lp151.6.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11167-1openSUSE-SU-2024:11169-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1573-1openSUSE-SU-2019:1572-1

  • php7 Alpine 3.15, Alpine 3.14, Alpine 3.13 +3 more 7.2.16-r0
  • php7 Alpine 3.7 7.1.29-r0
  • php7 Alpine 3.9, Alpine 3.8 7.2.17-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2019-9641

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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-2019-9641 updated cvss 5.3

php: Uninitialized read in exif_process_IFD_in_TIFF

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 php, php53 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 php, php-gd, php-cli, php-dba, php-fpm, php-pdo, +20 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • 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

9.40% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.php.net https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77509 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/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
  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource
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References

Sources

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