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medium 5.5

CVE-2026-7260 json

Stack overflow in phar with circular symlinks

published 3mo ago modified 17d ago also BIT-libphp-2026-7260 , BIT-php-2026-7260 , BIT-php-min-2026-7260 , EUVD-2026-51092 , GHSA-vc5h-9ppw-p5f3

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 1%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Circular symbolic links in phar archives could lead to unbounded recursion, exhausting the C stack and crashing the PHP process, in PHP versions from 8.2.* before 8.2.33, from 8.3.* before 8.3.33, from 8.4.* before 8.4.24, and from 8.5.* before 8.5.9.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami libphp 8.2.33, 8.3.33, 8.4.24, 8.5.9
  • bitnami php 8.2.33, 8.3.33, 8.4.24, 8.5.9
  • bitnami php-min 8.2.33, 8.3.33, 8.4.24, 8.5.9
  • PHP Group PHP 8.2.33, 8.3.33, 8.4.24, 8.5.9
  • php8.2 Debian 12 8.2.33-1~deb12u1
  • php8.4 Debian 13 8.4.24-1~deb13u1
  • php8.4 Debian 14 8.4.24-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-7260

  • php8.1 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.26
  • php8.3 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 8.3.6-0ubuntu0.24.04.11
  • php8.5 Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 8.5.4-0ubuntu1.3
  • php7.0 Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 7.0.33-0ubuntu0.16.04.16+esm20

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-7260

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • php RHEL 10.2 8.3.33-1.el10_2
  • php-gd RHEL 10.2 8.3.33-1.el10_2
  • php-cli RHEL 10.2 8.3.33-1.el10_2
  • php-dba RHEL 10.2 8.3.33-1.el10_2
  • php-dbg RHEL 10.2 8.3.33-1.el10_2
  • php-ffi RHEL 10.2 8.3.33-1.el10_2
  • php-fpm RHEL 10.2 8.3.33-1.el10_2
  • php-gmp RHEL 10.2 8.3.33-1.el10_2

red hat advisories RHSA-2026:62614RHSA-2026:62334RHSA-2026:61903RHSA-2026:61259RHSA-2026:57574RHSA-2026:57539

  • php8 SLE Module for Web and Scripting 15 SP7 8.3.33-150700.3.18.1
  • php8-fpm SLE Module for Web and Scripting 15 SP7 8.3.33-150700.3.18.1
  • php8-test SLE Module for Web and Scripting 15 SP7 8.3.33-150700.3.18.1
  • php8-embed SLE Module for Web and Scripting 15 SP7 8.3.33-150700.3.18.1
  • php8-fastcgi SLE Module for Web and Scripting 15 SP7 8.3.33-150700.3.18.1
  • apache2-mod_php8 SLE Module for Web and Scripting 15 SP7 8.3.33-150700.3.18.1
  • php7 SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +7 more 7.4.33-150400.4.73.1
  • php7-fpm SLES for SAP 15 SP6, SLES for SAP 15 SP5, SLES for SAP 15 SP4 +6 more 7.4.33-150400.4.73.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:3509-1SUSE-SU-2026:4128-1SUSE-SU-2026:3514-1SUSE-SU-2026:3513-1SUSE-SU-2026:3510-1SUSE-SU-2026:23121-1

  • php8 openSUSE Leap 16.0 8.4.24-160000.1.1
  • php8-fpm openSUSE Leap 16.0 8.4.24-160000.1.1
  • php8-test openSUSE Leap 16.0 8.4.24-160000.1.1
  • php8-embed openSUSE Leap 16.0 8.4.24-160000.1.1
  • php8-fastcgi openSUSE Leap 16.0 8.4.24-160000.1.1
  • apache2-mod_php8 openSUSE Leap 16.0 8.4.24-160000.1.1
  • php8 openSUSE Tumbleweed 8.5.9-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21532-1openSUSE-SU-2026:11418-1

  • php AlmaLinux 10 8.3.33-1.el10_2
  • php-gd AlmaLinux 10 8.3.33-1.el10_2
  • php-cli AlmaLinux 10 8.3.33-1.el10_2
  • php-dba AlmaLinux 10 8.3.33-1.el10_2
  • php-dbg AlmaLinux 10 8.3.33-1.el10_2
  • php-ffi AlmaLinux 10 8.3.33-1.el10_2
  • php-fpm AlmaLinux 10 8.3.33-1.el10_2
  • php-gmp AlmaLinux 10 8.3.33-1.el10_2

almalinux advisories ALSA-2026:62614ALSA-2026:61903ALSA-2026:62334ALSA-2026:61259ALSA-2026:57539ALSA-2026:57574

  • php Rocky Linux 10 8.3.33-1.el10_2
  • php Rocky Linux 9 8.2.33-1.module+el9.8.0+40305+0c876ebe
  • php-pecl-rrd Rocky Linux 9 2.0.3-4.module+el9.7.0+40005+715283ec
  • php-pecl-rrd Rocky Linux 9 2.0.3-4.module+el9.7.0+40003+454ed3c4
  • php-pecl-rrd Rocky Linux 9 2.0.3-4.module+el9.7.0+40004+bf50a568
  • php-pecl-zip Rocky Linux 9 1.22.3-1.module+el9.7.0+40004+bf50a568
  • php-pecl-zip Rocky Linux 9 1.22.3-1.module+el9.7.0+40005+715283ec
  • php-pecl-apcu Rocky Linux 9 5.1.23-1.module+el9.7.0+40004+bf50a568

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2026:62614RLSA-2026:61903RLSA-2026:62334RLSA-2026:61259RLSA-2026:57574RLSA-2026:57539

  • php82 Alpine 3.22 8.2.33-r0
  • php83 Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 8.3.36-r0
  • php83 Alpine 3.24 8.3.33-r0
  • php84 Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 8.4.27-r0
  • php84 Alpine 3.24 8.4.24-r0
  • php85 Alpine 3.23 8.5.12-r0
  • php85 Alpine 3.24 8.5.9-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-7260

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • php Azure Linux 3.0 8.3.33-1

azure linux advisories AZL-94181

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-7260 updated cvss 5.5

php: PHP: Denial of Service via circular symbolic links in phar archives

  • 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 10 php8.4 Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-workbench-codeserver-datascience-cpu-py312-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/code-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) php 7.4.33-6.module+el8.10.0+24605+5caacdec, php 8.2.33-1.module+el8.10.0+24627+75f19366, libzip 1.6.1-1.module+el8.10.0+22485+a3539972, libzip 1.7.3-1.module+el8.10.0+20770+a5eca186, php-gd 7.4.33-6.module+el8.10.0+24605+5caacdec, php-gd 8.2.33-1.module+el8.10.0+24627+75f19366, +60 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:62334
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) php 8.0.30-8.el9_8, php-gd 8.0.30-8.el9_8, php-cli 8.0.30-8.el9_8, php-dba 8.0.30-8.el9_8, php-dbg 8.0.30-8.el9_8, php-ffi 8.0.30-8.el9_8, +77 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:61903
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10) php 8.3.33-1.el10_2, php-gd 8.3.33-1.el10_2, php-cli 8.3.33-1.el10_2, php-dba 8.3.33-1.el10_2, php-dbg 8.3.33-1.el10_2, php-ffi 8.3.33-1.el10_2, +18 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:62614
  • Red Hat Hardened Images php 8.5.9-1.hum1, php-gd 8.5.9-1.hum1, php-cli 8.5.9-1.hum1, php-dba 8.5.9-1.hum1, php-dbg 8.5.9-1.hum1, php-ffi 8.5.9-1.hum1, +21 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:47200

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
3mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 5.4 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:U
CNA 4.0 5.4 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami libphp
>=8.2.0, <8.2.33
>=8.3.0, <8.3.33
>=8.4.0, <8.4.24
>=8.5.0, <8.5.9
8.2.33
8.3.33
8.4.24
8.5.9
bitnami php
>=8.2.0, <8.2.33
>=8.3.0, <8.3.33
>=8.4.0, <8.4.24
>=8.5.0, <8.5.9
8.2.33
8.3.33
8.4.24
8.5.9
bitnami php-min
>=8.2.0, <8.2.33
>=8.3.0, <8.3.33
>=8.4.0, <8.4.24
>=8.5.0, <8.5.9
8.2.33
8.3.33
8.4.24
8.5.9

Affected products

  • PHP Group PHP

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

The maintainers of php/php-src published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.