CVE-2007-1285 EXPLOIT
7.5
HIGH · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 18.2% (pctl 97)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
The Zend Engine in PHP 4.x before 4.4.7, and 5.x before 5.2.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and PHP crash) via deeply nested arrays, which trigger deep recursion in the variable destruction routines.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.5 (HIGH, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 18.16% — more likely to be exploited than 97% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-674 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2007-03-06 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (7)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu linux |
| novell | suse linux |
| php | php |
| redhat | enterprise linux desktop |
| redhat | enterprise linux server |
| redhat | enterprise linux workstation |
| suse | linux enterprise server |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | PHP 3/4/5 - ZendEngine Variable Destruction Remote Denial of Service | 2007-03-01 |
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2007-07/msg00006.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0154.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0155.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0163.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24909
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24910
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24924
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24941
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24945
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25445
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26048
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26642
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27864
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28936
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200705-19.xml
- http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2008&m=slackware-security.335136
- http://us2.php.net/releases/4_4_7.php
- http://us2.php.net/releases/5_2_2.php
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:087
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:088
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