CVE-2026-7260Stack overflow in phar with circular symlinks
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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.
- CVSS
- 5.4 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)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
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-121
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- php
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Jul 30, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
PHP Group PHP php_group:php (from the name) | from 8.2.* before 8.2.33; from 8.3.* before 8.3.33; from 8.4.* before 8.4.24; from 8.5.* before 8.5.9 | CNA record |
php php php:php | from 8.2.0 before 8.2.33; from 8.3.0 before 8.3.33; from 8.4.0 before 8.4.24; from 8.5.0 before 8.5.9 | NVD |
References
- https://github.com/php/php-src/security/advisories/GHSA-vc5h-9ppw-p5f3vendor-advisory
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