CVE-2007-1890 EXPLOIT
7.5
HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 7.8% (pctl 95)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
Integer overflow in the msg_receive function in PHP 4 before 4.4.5 and PHP 5 before 5.2.1, on FreeBSD and possibly other platforms, allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain maxsize values, as demonstrated by 0xffffffff.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.5 (HIGH, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| EPSS | 7.84% — more likely to be exploited than 95% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2007-04-06 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| php | php |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | PHP 5.1.6 - 'Msg_Receive()' Memory Allocation Integer Overflow | 2007-03-31 |
References
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