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The php security tag on WindowsForum covers critical vulnerabilities and patches affecting PHP runtimes and libraries. Recent discussions include CVE-2024-11235, a use-after-free in PHP 8.3/8.4 requiring urgent patching; CVE-2023-41330, a PHAR deserialization flaw in knp-snappy; CVE-2024-3096, a password_verify bug with NUL-byte hashes; CVE-2024-2756, a cookie-handling vulnerability; CVE-2025-14180, a null-pointer dereference in PDO PostgreSQL; CVE-2025-14177, an information leak via getimagesize; and CVE-2025-14178, a heap overflow in array_merge. Topics emphasize patching urgency, Microsoft Azure Linux attestation, and practical mitigation steps for operators.
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    PHP2Shell RCE: How to Upgrade Vulnerable PHP on Windows and macOS

    When a critical PHP bug lands, Linux administrators usually install the updated distribution package and move on. Windows and Mac administrators who run PHP don't get that shortcut. Qualys made exactly this point in a November 4 post about PHP2Shell, the name for CVE-2026-109618 and...
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    CISA Adds Two PHP RCE Flaws to KEV: CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619

    CISA has added CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, two PHP vulnerabilities, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and updated its PHP security alert. The agency’s October 26, 2026 notice puts both flaws on the remediation priority list for organizations operating affected systems—not...
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    PHP2Shell Confirmed RCE Report: Urgently Patch PHP 8.2–8.5 Servers

    PHP2Shell has moved from scanning and failed exploit attempts to a claimed confirmed compromise. According to BleepingComputer, Adel Karimi, detection and response lead at Perplexity, caught evidence of confirmed remote code execution in his honeypots. The target was an Apache mod_php...
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    CVE-2026-115560 PHP RCE: Disable Session Upload Progress Until the Next Patch

    PHP has published an unusual advisory. It covers a remote code execution (RCE) path that PHP itself calls "unlikely." The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-115560. It has no patch yet, and it affects releases that were fully updated only two days earlier. For admins who rushed out the PHP2Shell fixes...
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    PHP2Shell RCE Flaws: Patch CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 on Windows and Azure

    PHP2Shell is a pair of critical PHP engine flaws, and Windows and Azure admins who run PHP need to patch them. The flaws are CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. They are not a story about governments panicking or about AI replacing security teams. On 21 October 2026 the PHP project released...
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    PHP2Shell Attacks Began Before Disclosure: Patch PHP 8.2–8.5 and Hunt From October 17

    Amazon Threat Intelligence says attackers were probing the PHP2Shell flaws four days before PHP shipped its fixes. It observed an exploitation attempt on October 17, four days before public disclosure. The two bugs are CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. If you run any internet-facing PHP, the...
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    PHP2Shell RCE Flaws: Patch CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 on PHP Servers — Megathread

    PHP's maintainers say a supply-chain security vendor jumped the gun on their embargo. Chainguard's CEO says it shipped fixes because attacks had already started. Both sides agree on the clock, but they disagree about what the clock means. This matters to anyone running PHP, which includes IT...
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    PHP Critical Security Release Set for October 21: Prepare IIS, Windows Server and Legacy Installs

    PHP has set a firm date for a security release, while the details of the two flaws behind it remain partly unverified. The PHP security team says it will ship fixes for two critical vulnerabilities on Wednesday. The notice came out early because information about the bugs reportedly leaked...
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    Urgent Patch: PHP 8.3/8.4 CVE-2024-11235 Use After Free Risks

    A subtle sequence of PHP internals — an exception triggered inside a magic property setter combined with a null‑coalescing assignment — can produce a use‑after‑free in the engine’s shutdown path, leaving unpatched PHP 8.3 and 8.4 builds exposed to high‑impact crashes and, in some scenarios, the...
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    CVE-2023-41330: Knp Snappy PHAR Deserialization Patch

    The knplabs/knp-snappy library — a widely used PHP wrapper for wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage — contains a high‑severity unsafe deserialization vulnerability that can be trivially abused to achieve remote code execution when the application environment and usage patterns permit it; the bug...
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    CVE-2024-3096 Explained: PHP Password Verify Bug and Azure Linux Attestation

    A subtle bug in PHP’s password verification logic — tracked as CVE‑2024‑3096 — let an attacker gain account access in a corner case: if a stored password hash begins with a NUL (0x00) byte, calling password_verify() with a blank password could return true. Microsoft’s Security Response Center...
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    CVE-2024-2756 Explained: Azure Linux Attestation and PHP Cookie Risk

    CVE-2024-2756 is a practical reminder that a terse vendor mapping — “Azure Linux includes this open‑source library and is therefore potentially affected” — is an attestation of scope, not a categorical guarantee that no other Microsoft product could ship the same vulnerable code. Background /...
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    CVE-2025-14180: Patch PHP PDO PostgreSQL Emulated Prepares Crash

    PHP’s PDO PostgreSQL stack contains a newly disclosed null-pointer dereference that can crash PHP processes and knock applications offline when emulated prepares are enabled — CVE-2025-14180 affects multiple PHP 8.x branches and was patched in the late‑December security release cycle; operators...
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    Mitigate PHP CVE-2025-14177: getimagesize info leak and patch guide

    PHP’s core image helper has a subtle but consequential flaw: CVE‑2025‑14177 is an information‑disclosure bug in the getimagesize implementation that can cause uninitialized heap bytes to be copied into JPEG APPn metadata (for example APP1), leaking fragments of process memory when images are...
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    CVE-2025-14178: PHP array_merge Heap Overflow Fixed in Latest Patches

    A newly assigned CVE (CVE-2025-14178) discloses a heap buffer overflow in PHP’s array_merge that can be triggered when a sequence of packed arrays causes integer overflow while precomputing element counts — a defect patched in PHP 8.1.34, 8.2.30, 8.3.29, 8.4.16 and 8.5.1 and now tracked across...